Governance

Management Tools

Articulation at the Coastal Zone

Portugal

Ministry for the Sea

DGPM¹

DGRM²

APA³

Situation Plan

Allocation Plan

Prevalence of the Maritime Space Plans

England

Ministry for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

MMO⁵

Spatial Plans

Articulation through cooperation between local and maritime authorities. Prevalence of pre-existing policies and plans at coastal zone

Netherlands

Ministry of Infrastructure and Water management

IDON⁶

North Sea Management Plan

The land spatial plans are in force until 1 km after the baseline

Norway

Ministry of Environment and Climate Change

Interministerial Committee

Barents-Lofoten Sea Management Plan; Norway Sea Management Plan; North-Skagerrak Sea Management Plan

Articulation through cooperation between local and maritime authorities. Prevalence of pre-existing policies

Germany

Federal Ministry of Interior, Building and Community (BMIBH)

Maritime spatial plan for the EEZ of the North Sea and Baltic Sea

Maritime spatial plan Schleswig Holstein

Maritime spatial plan Mecklenburg Vorpommern

Maritime spatial plan Lower Saxony

Articulation through specific plans at the federal states level