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The purpose of the ‘Marine Environment Directive’ is to establish a high level of protection for Europe’s seas and oceans, to extend our knowledge of this heritage, on which there remains a great deal to discover, and to define a management strategy based on an integrated approach, with qualitative and quantitative objectives aimed at reducing the pressure on marine resources and their ecosystems.
I wish to highlight the reference to the need for EU cofinancing of measures to be carried out in order to enforce the directive, and their inclusion in the budgets from 2007 onwards. This measure is very important for Portugal given that it is a country with an enormous exclusive economic zone, the largest in the EU, which therefore involves high costs.
Approving the change to the deadline for achieving the objectives set out – from 2021 to 2017 – as proposed by the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, is indicative of Parliament’s ambitious attitude to this issue and the extent of its commitment to seeking ‘good environmental status’ for the marine environment.
The remaining measures provided for, which are aimed at ensuring the sustainability of economic activities involving the seas and oceans, protecting biodiversity and preventing pollution, also proposed by the PPE-DE, are also highly important, improving substantially upon the Commission’s proposal …"@en1
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