Newsletter June 2021

The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the UK Department of Transport have assigned the consultancy Carbon Trust with the task to produce a report on how to decarbonise the recreational marine sector. The Roadmap was published on 9 June and can be found here. The background of this report is the UK Clean Maritime Plan, which sets out a net zero emission target, including all new vessels in UK waters designed with net…
At its Plenary Session on 7 May 2021, the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) adopted the Opinion “Local and regional authorities protecting the marine environment”. The rapporteur for this opinion was Emma Nohrén (Sweden/Greens), Vice Mayor of Lysekil municipality in Sweden. Concerned that the EU’s marine environment did not achieve Good Environmental Status (GES) by 2020 as required by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), the Committee issued a number of policy recommendations. A…

The European Environment Agency (EEA) published the annual Bathing Water report for 2020. Based on the EU’s Bathing Water Directive (BWD), the quality of European bathing water has greatly improved in the last decades. The Directive was first adopted in 2006 and it lays down provisions for the monitoring and management of bathing water quality, and the provision of information to the public. The yearly report is prepared by the EEA in cooperation with the…
On 9 June, the Commission published the June infringement package. In this package, the European Commission decides to pursue legal action against Member States which have been found to be incompliant with their obligation under EU law in various policy areas. On the topic of biodiversity, the Commission found 18 Member States (Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Germany, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia) incompliant with various provisions…

Since 1973, The Ocean Race’s competitors have been sailing across the globe, and on 29 May, the inaugural edition of The Ocean Race Europe started from Lorient, France and finished in Genova, Italy on 19 June. As the final leg was coming to an end, on Wednesday 16 June The Ocean Race Summit Europe was held online, bringing together sailors, experts and policymakers to discuss ways to tackle urgent threats to the seas. Patron on…
On 11 June, EBI Secretary-General Philip Easthill spoke at the Global Tourism Forum Summit in Bodrum, Turkey. Organised by the World Tourism Forum Institute, a London-based think-tank focused on the tourism industry, EBI was invited to discuss the future of the boating sector in Europe and the key challenges of the industry after Covid-19. With over 6 million boats in European waters, 36 million regular boaters and over 280,000 direct employees, the European boating industry…

The European Regional Commission of the UN World Tourism Organization held its annual meeting in Athens, Greece on 3rd June. This was followed by a high-level conference on Coastal and Maritime Tourism on 4 June. The Conference was attended by delegates from UNWTO member countries, including Tourism Ministers, international organisations and key stakeholders. The Conference was opened by Greek Minister of Tourism Harry Theoharis, who highlighted the Greek nation’s close connection to the sea and…
Deadline: 30 July 2021 The BlueInvest Readiness Assistance is a coaching programme for high potential start-ups and SMEs with innovative and sustainable products and solutions for the Blue Economy. Over the period of three months, participants will: receive feedback on their investment readiness level; be matched with a business coach to develop a set of concrete business objectives; receive assistance from their business coach through one-to-one coaching sessions; benefit from additional training at the BlueInvest…

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