Marine Cadastre: A support to the Blue Economy?

Presenter: Rik Wouters Project Coordinator

Marine Cadastre project Author: project team Marine Cadastre

76th Session Committee on Housing and Land Management

Presentation outline

• Scope • Organisation • Approach • Results • Conclusions

Scope

What will we do: •Prepare list of terms and definitions •Study the relevant legal context and EU policy •Report on relevant case studies on marine cadastre And than…. •Define link between Marine cadaster and Blue Economy

Organisation Initiative Athens December 2014 CLGE ELRA EULIS EuroGeographics PCC Observers WPLA FIG

Description Marine cadastre: Marine Cadastre describes the location and spatial extent of rights, restrictions and responsibilities in the marine environment Marine Spatial Planning: process which has the aim of establishing a binding plan which organizes all economic and ecological activities in a given geographical sea area.

Marine cadastre parcel

A marine cadastre unit or parcel will have to reflect: 1. the volumetric reality of every distinct marine zone (sea surface & water column & seabed or soil & subsoil) with: a) the rights and charges under UNCLOS b) the patrimonial rights which include rights in rem 2. a fourth dimension, meaning the temporary nature of many particular rights because of the time aspect of most sea-linked activities (fixed terms licences, concessions and leases for mining, production of energy, aquaculture, fishing, etc… ).

Drivers of the Marine Cadastre

marine environment as an economic resource 1994: entry into force

Late ‘90’s and early 00’s

Rise of the environmental movement Technological advancements:

GIS, SDI

Marine Cadastre: The scope

“Marine Cadastre describes the location and spatial extent of rights, restrictions and responsibilities in the marine environment”

The scope of the Marine Cadastre includes (among other things): • Delineation • The identity of entities with

statutory content • Scientific information

(e.g.geology, hydrology, biology etc.)

• Other marine related information that has boundary implications (UNB-FIG, 2003)

NB: we need more concrete argumentation

Blue Economy

Blue growth

IMP Blue Growth

1st phase (2006-2012)

2nd phase (2012-2020)

Marine Knowledge

Marine Spatial

Planning

Maritime Surveillance

Maritime’s contribution to achieving Europe’s 2020 goals for smart, sustainable, inclusive growth

Reaffirmed maritime dimension of EU

Cross sectoral implementation tools

Basic components

1)Blue Growth focus areas

2)Components to provide knowledge, legal certainty, and security

3)Sea basin strategies marine cadastre

Conclusions

• Lots of work on Marine environment has been done • Lots of information systems are in place…. but does it cover specific needs? • That question should be answered in the project

– How can a marine cadastre support Blue Economy? – What are the contours of the marine cadastre? – What is our message to the national authorities? – Can we define follow up actions that interest the EU?

And to answer these questions is not a piece of cake…

Thank you for listening! More information: rik.wouters@kadaster.nl