SIMNORAT - Initial Assessment (D1)
Creators
- 1. Cerema
- 2. AFB
- 3. UAVR
- 4. CEDEX
- 5. IEO
Description
Component: 1.1 Initial Assessment
Sub-component: 1.1.1 Initial Assessment MSP oriented
This initial assessment report aims to provide a synthetic and shared overview of existing conditions and dynamics of the SIMNORAT project area.
"Living document", this report has evolved and has been updated throughout the project's duration based upon the most recent informations available from European and national sources and the works and results of its different activities.
The report is divided into two main sections.
Part I – The SIMNORAT project area: an overview
This section addresses project area’s main characteristics: maritime delimitations, marine environment, maritime activities, pressures and impacts.
The marine environment chapter gives a description of the biological features of the various coastal and offshore ecosystems based on the MSFD descriptors 1 "Biodiversity" (benthic and pelagic habitats, marine mammals, marine birds, marine turtles, cephalopods, fish species) and 4 "Food webs". It aims to identify where particularly sensitive and ecologically important areas are. This detailed chapter is provided in annex 1.
The next chapter examines maritime activities undertaken by France, Spain and Portugal in the coastal and offshore waters of the project area: current situation, key figures, spatial distribution, strategies and policies, future trends… In line with works and reflections led at European level, focus is made on the following key maritime sectors: fisheries, marine aquaculture, offshore oil & gas, marine aggregates, ports & shipping, submarine cables, marine renewable energies: offshore wind and ocean energy, coastal and maritime tourism.
Finally, the interactions chapter draws on the preceding chapters to identify main pressures, potentially impacted areas (areas subject to high levels of pressures), and, if available, impacts on ecosystems. Assessment is based on the MSFD descriptors related to anthropogenic pressures, belonging to “biological”, “physical” or “substances, litter and energy” categories. This chapter is provided in annex 2.
Part II – Towards maritime spatial planning in the SIMNORAT project area
After a quick reminder of the main overarching European legal and policy frameworks which regulate maritime activities in Europe’s regional seas, this section reviews current status of maritime spatial planning in countries bordering the project area: France, Spain and Portugal.
If legal frameworks for maritime spatial planning are in place in all these three countries, level of progress in the preparation, elaboration and implementation of maritime spatial plans, is, however, very different from one country to another. In France and Portugal, maritime spatial plans are foreseen to be adopted in 2019 whereas, in Spain, works have just been undertaken.
This section concludes with a brief summary of previous, or current, transboundary MSP-related projects for the region of interest: TPEA, MAIA, MUSES.
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