Translation of "Integrated coastal zone management " (English → French) :

As a specific European contribution and response, Commission Communication COM(95)511 announced a Demonstration Programme on Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) to "show the practical conditions that must be met if sustainable development is to be achieved in the European coastal zones in all their diversity".

Integrated Coastal Zone Management is one component of the EU Integrated Maritime Policy as endorsed by the European Council held in Lisbon on 13 and 14 December 2007 and as also detailed in the Commission Communication ‘Towards an Integrated Maritime Policy for better governance in the Mediterranean’ and later welcomed by the General Affairs Council in its conclusions on Integrated Maritime Policy of 16 November 2009.

The Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2002, concerning the implementation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Europe (3), and in particular Chapter V thereof, encourages the implementation by the Member States of integrated coastal zone management in the context of existing conventions with neighbouring countries, including non-Member States, in the same regional sea.

The ICZM Protocol covers a broad range of provisions which will need to be implemented by different levels of administration, having regard to the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality.While it is appropriate for the Union to act in support of integrated coastal zone management, bearing in mind, inter alia, the cross-border nature of most environmental problems, the Member States and their relevant competent authorities will be responsible for the design and implementation on the coastal territory of certain detailed measures laid down in the ICZM Protocol, such as the establishment of zones where construction is not allowed.

In formulating national strategies and measures based on these strategies, Member States should follow the principles of integrated coastal zone management to ensure good coastal zone management, taking into account the good practices identified, inter alia, in the Commission's demonstration programme on integrated coastal zone management.

(14) Council Resolution of 6 May 1994 on a Community strategy for integrated coastal zone management(5) and Council Resolution of 25 February 1992 on the future Community policy concerning the European coastal zone(6) both identify the need for concerted European action to implement integrated coastal zone management.