Environmental improvement with additional instruments for environmental protection in port areas

Abstract1. The context analysis of environmental situation in Corridor8 ports shows growing sensibility of the management authorities to the environmental issues and objective difficulties for development of appropriate environmental policies due to the following reasons: the complex legislation which has not found yet the balance between the business interests in sea transport and the environment protection and poor enforcement of the regulations. In order to mitigate the negative impact of these realities, some possible tools for environmental policy implementation in the SEE area ports are proposed in the present paper. Attention is focused on: Environmental management system; Environmental risk analysis, Environmental land and maritime use planning and Integrated coastal zone management.