Policy Unit


The EUCC is directly involved in formulating innovative European coastal policy aimed at a sustainable use of the coastline whilst protecting areas of high natural values. The work is being primarily conducted in the European Union and the regional seas – the eastern Atlantic seaboard, the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.

 

 

 
The specific projects on which the EUCC is currently active are:
 
1. The development of a European Coastal and Marine Ecological Network

Dnester Delta
EECONET Action Fund
Implementation of the EU Nature directives in the marine environment
Pan European Ecological Network Map (S.E. Europe)
SEENET: Facilitating the establishment of the Pan–European Ecological Network
Poland Oder Delta Nature Park

 

2. Integrated Coastal Zone Management and sustainable development in coastal areas and waters

Coastal Practice Network
CoastLearn
Corepoint
ENCORA
PLANCOAST Romania
ICZM in the Oder delta
ICZM Progress Indicator set
Integrated Coastal Area & River Management
Motiive
The benefits of ICZM
ICZM in the MED
CAP NADOR - Coastal Action Plan for the Province of Nador

 

3. Coast and Climate

CoastLearn
CoPraNet
ACCMA – Climate Change Adaptation in Morocco

 

4. Network building

CoPraNet network expansion

 

Important projects completed in the recent past are:

 

5. Recently completed projects

Coastal Code
Conservation of Rusne island in the Nemunas delta, Lithuania
ECMEN
ENRISK
EUROSION
HELCOM
ICZM in the Black sea
ICZM in Romania
Linking ICZM to Biodiversity
Pan European Ecological Network Map (N.E. Europe)
PECMEC
Quality of Coastal Towns
Sustainable tourism in Russia
Ten for Nature