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<h1 class="ecl-page-header-core__title">Integrated Maritime Policy</h1>
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deals with 5 specific areas. These are detailed below.</p>
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policy is</h2>
<p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-color-grey ecl-u-mt-l">The <a href="/example"
class="ecl-link">Integrated Maritime Policy</a> seeks to provide a more coherent approach to maritime
issue, which increased coordination between different policy areas.</p>
<p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-color-grey ecl-u-mt-m ecl-u-mb-none">There are 5 cross-cutting
policies in the Integrated Maritime Policy where research and innovation plays a large part - blue growth,
marine data and knowledge, maritime spatial planning, integrated maritime suveillance, and sea basin
strategies.</p>
<h2 class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-type-color-black ecl-u-mt-xl ecl-u-mt-lg-3xl ecl-u-mb-none"
id="blue-growth">Blue growth</h2>
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contribution to achieving the <a href="/example" class="ecl-link">Europe 2020 strategy</a> for smart,
sustainable and inclusive growth.</p>
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Commission communication: <a href="/example"
class="ecl-link ecl-link--external ecl-link--icon ecl-link--icon-after"><span
class="ecl-link__label">Innovation in the Blue Economy: realising the potential of our seas and oceans
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class="ecl-link">Horizon 2020</a> has Blue Growth calls for proposal dedicated to implementing the
strategy.</p>
<h2 class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-type-color-black ecl-u-mt-xl ecl-u-mt-lg-3xl ecl-u-mb-none"
id="maritime-spatial-planning">Maritime spatial planning</h2>
<p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-color-grey ecl-u-mt-l">There is an increasing demand for physical
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<p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-color-grey ecl-u-mt-m ecl-u-mb-none">Coherent planning and
scientific knowledge are needed to support the development of stratetic plans for regulation, zoning,
management, protection of the marine environment.</p>
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class="ecl-link__label">COEXIST</span> <svg focusable="false" aria-hidden="true"
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id="integrated-maritime-surveillance">Integrated maritime surveillance</h2>
<p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-color-grey ecl-u-mt-m ecl-u-mb-none">Integrated maritime
surveillance provides authorities interested or active in maritime surveillance with ways to exchange
information and data. Sharing data makes surveillance cheaper and more effective.</p>
<h2 class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-type-color-black ecl-u-mt-xl ecl-u-mt-lg-3xl ecl-u-mb-none">Atlantic
Ocean</h2>
<p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-color-grey ecl-u-mt-m ecl-u-mb-none">The EU pursued the
implementation of activities under the <a href="/example"
class="ecl-link ecl-link--external ecl-link--icon ecl-link--icon-after"><span class="ecl-link__label">All
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class="ecl-link__icon ecl-icon ecl-icon--xs">
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</svg></a> with the</p>
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<li class="ecl-unordered-list__item">signing of the EU-USA-Canada <a href="/example" class="ecl-link">Galway
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<li class="ecl-unordered-list__item">signing of the EU-Brazil-South Africa <a href="/example"
class="ecl-link">Belem Statement</a> on Atlantic Ocean Cooperation in 2013.</li>
</ul>
<p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-color-grey ecl-u-mt-m ecl-u-mb-none">There are now over 500
international research teams working together towards a healthy, productive, secure and resilient Atlantic
Ocean.</p>
<p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-color-grey ecl-u-mt-m ecl-u-mb-none">There are also wide-ranging
cooperation agreements with other countries.</p>
<ul class="ecl-u-mt-m ecl-u-mb-none ecl-u-type-color-black ecl-unordered-list">
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class="ecl-link ecl-link--external ecl-link--icon ecl-link--icon-after"><span
class="ecl-link__label">European Commission and Argentina</span> <svg focusable="false"
aria-hidden="true" class="ecl-link__icon ecl-icon ecl-icon--xs">
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<p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-color-grey ecl-u-mt-m ecl-u-mb-none">The ambition is to have more
than 1,000 research teams funded by Horizon 2020 working in Antractica to the Arctic by 2020.</p>
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<li class="ecl-unordered-list__item"><a href="/example" class="ecl-link">EU funded research projects with
Cabo Verde partners</a> </li>
<li class="ecl-unordered-list__item"><a href="/example" class="ecl-link">EU funded research projects on
Atlantic Ocean</a> </li>
</ul>
<p class="ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-color-grey ecl-u-mt-m ecl-u-mb-none">The Galway and Belem Statements
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recognised as a major achievements of both the strategy and the action plan.</p><a href="/example"
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