COM(2002)539 - Towards a strategy to protect and conserve the marine environment

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Legal instrument	Communication
Decision making procedure	Own-initiative procedure (INI)
reference by COM-number11	COM(2002)539
Additional COM-numbers	COM(2002)539
procedure number13	2003/2065(INI)
CELEX number14	52002DC0539

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  These reports include; the Fourth Periodic Assessment of the Helsinki Commission (to be published in 2002), the 'QSR2000' of the OSPAR Commission (published in 2000), which includes a contribution made by AMAP, the 'State and Pressures of the Marine and Coastal Mediterranean Environment' of the EEA and UNEP/MAP (published in 1999), the 'Black Sea Pollution Assessment' of the Black Sea Environmental Programme (published by the Black Sea Environmental Programme in 1998) and information taken from the website of the Black Sea Environmental Programme and "Europe's Environment: The Second Assessment", published by the EEA in 1998. Information regarding the impact of fisheries on the main commercial fish stocks was updated taking into account the Commission's Green Paper on the Review of the Common Fisheries Policy.
  
   
• 2. 

  For the purpose of this Communication marine biodiversity is used in accordance with relevant parts of the UN Convention of Biodiversity Article 2 that states: 'Biodiversity means the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic organisms and the ecological complexes of which they are part: this includes diversity within species between species and of ecosystems.'
  
   
• 3. 

  The IRF is an informal framework for co-operation between regional marine conventions, the EEA and JRC.
  
   
• 4. 

  These reports include; the Fourth Periodic Assessment of the Helsinki Commission (to be published in 2002), the 'QSR2000' of the OSPAR Commission (published in 2000), which includes a contribution made by AMAP, the 'State and Pressures of the Marine and Coastal Mediterranean Environment' of the EEA and UNEP/MAP (published in 1999), the 'Black Sea Pollution Assessment' of the Black Sea Environmental Programme (published by the Black Sea Environmental Programme in 1998) and information taken from the website of the Black Sea Environmental Programme and "Europe's Environment: The Second Assessment", published by the EEA in 1998. Information regarding the impact of fisheries on the main commercial fish stocks was updated taking into account the Commission's Green Paper on the Review of the Common Fisheries Policy.
  
   
• 5. 

  See Directive 91/492/EEC on shellfish, Directive 91/493/EEC on fish and fishery products and Directive 96/23/EC on monitoring of residues in food.
  
   
• 6. 

  These reports include; the Fourth Periodic Assessment of the Helsinki Commission (to be published in 2002), the 'QSR2000' of the OSPAR Commission (published in 2000), which includes a contribution made by AMAP, the 'State and Pressures of the Marine and Coastal Mediterranean Environment' of the EEA and UNEP/MAP (published in 1999), the 'Black Sea Pollution Assessment' of the Black Sea Environmental Programme (published by the Black Sea Environmental Programme in 1998) and information taken from the website of the Black Sea Environmental Programme and "Europe's Environment: The Second Assessment", published by the EEA in 1998. Information regarding the impact of fisheries on the main commercial fish stocks was updated taking into account the Commission's Green Paper on the Review of the Common Fisheries Policy.
  
   
• 7. 

  For the purpose of this Communication marine biodiversity is used in accordance with relevant parts of the UN Convention of Biodiversity Article 2 that states: 'Biodiversity means the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic organisms and the ecological complexes of which they are part: this includes diversity within species between species and of ecosystems.'
  
   
• 8. 

  The IRF is an informal framework for co-operation between regional marine conventions, the EEA and JRC.
  
   
• 9. 

  These reports include; the Fourth Periodic Assessment of the Helsinki Commission (to be published in 2002), the 'QSR2000' of the OSPAR Commission (published in 2000), which includes a contribution made by AMAP, the 'State and Pressures of the Marine and Coastal Mediterranean Environment' of the EEA and UNEP/MAP (published in 1999), the 'Black Sea Pollution Assessment' of the Black Sea Environmental Programme (published by the Black Sea Environmental Programme in 1998) and information taken from the website of the Black Sea Environmental Programme and "Europe's Environment: The Second Assessment", published by the EEA in 1998. Information regarding the impact of fisheries on the main commercial fish stocks was updated taking into account the Commission's Green Paper on the Review of the Common Fisheries Policy.
  
   
• 10. 

  See Directive 91/492/EEC on shellfish, Directive 91/493/EEC on fish and fishery products and Directive 96/23/EC on monitoring of residues in food.
  
   
• 11. 

  De Europese Commissie kent nummers toe aan officiële documenten van de Europese Unie. De Commissie maakt onderscheid in een aantal typen documenten door middel van het toekennen van verschillende nummerseries. Het onderscheid is gebaseerd op het soort document en/of de instelling van de Unie van wie het document afkomstig is.
   
• 12. 

  De Raad van de Europese Unie kent aan wetgevingsdossiers een uniek toe. Dit nummer bestaat uit een vijfcijferig volgnummer gevolgd door een schuine streep met de laatste twee cijfers van het jaartal, bijvoorbeeld 12345/00 - een document met nummer 12345 uit het jaar 2000.
   
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  Het interinstitutionele nummer is een nummerreeks die binnen de Europese Unie toegekend wordt aan voorstellen voor regelgeving van de Europese Commissie.
  Binnen de Europese Unie worden nog een aantal andere nummerseries gebruikt. Iedere instelling heeft één of meerdere sets documenten met ieder een eigen nummering. Die reeksen komen niet overeen met elkaar of het interinstitutioneel nummer.
   
• 14. 

  Deze databank van de Europese Unie biedt de mogelijkheid de actuele werkzaamheden (workflow) van de Europese instellingen (Europees Parlement, Raad, ESC, Comité van de Regio's, Europese Centrale Bank, Hof van Justitie enz.) te volgen. EURlex volgt alle voorstellen (zoals wetgevende en begrotingsdossiers) en mededelingen van de Commissie, vanaf het moment dat ze aan de Raad of het Europees Parlement worden voorgelegd.
   
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  Als dag van bekendmaking van een Europees besluit geldt de dag waarop het besluit in het Publicatieblad wordt bekendgemaakt, en daardoor in alle officiële talen van de Europese Unie bij het Publicatiebureau beschikbaar is.