Spatial management on the Netherlands part of the North Sea

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• Spatial management on the (Netherlands part of
  the) North Sea

For a healthy, safe and profitable sea Leo de
Vrees Ministry of Transport, Public Works and
Water Management. Division North Sea The
Netherlands
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Outline

• Introduction
• Spatial analyis
• Management instruments
• Conclusion

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Policy on Spatial Planning

• Guidance where needed, market initiatives where
  possible
• Allocated activities
• Shipping, military use, nature
• Exclusion
• No permanent installations within 12 mile range
• Sand extraction beyond 20m depth line
• Safety zones
• No constructions in clearways

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Implementation of the Spatial Planning Policy

• Integrated Management Plan North Sea 2015
• 3 themes healthy, safe and profitable sea
• Co-production of 4 Ministries
• Stakeholder participation during the process
• Decision by Council of Ministers and approved by
  Parliament

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Spatial analysis

• Stable or decreasing use
• Offshore industry, military use, coastal defense,
  cables and pipelines
• Vessel traffic and fishing activities
• Increasing use
• Sand extraction, windfarming, protected nature
• Land reclamation, mariculture,
• Recreational traffic

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Existing (fixed) use military, oil and gas, and
shipping
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Existing use pipelines and cables
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Existing use trawlers gt 300 hp
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Areas with special ecological values
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Conclusions spatial analysis

• Most location-based functions have their own
  zone/area
• Enough space for increasing use
• Possibly less space for fisheries in the future

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Management instruments for spatial management

• Permit tracking system
• Allocation of certain functions
• Multi-functional use no exclusive rights
• Integrated assessment framework for permits
• Opportunity maps

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Integrated assessment framework for permitting

• To retain space for economic use in the future
  and to protect ecological values
• For all activities for which a permit is
  required not those that are regulated
  internationally
• 4 assessments
• precautionary principle
• usefulness and necessity
• choice of location and use of space
• restrictions and compensation of effects on
  nature

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Opportunity map sand extraction
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Opportunity map wind farming
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Overview