This will only be possible if the integrated coastal zone management process is backed up with appropriate legislation.

This should happen not later than three years after the adoption of the current recommendation on integrated coastal zone management.

The issue of integrated coastal zone management is of crucial importance to my constituents in Scotland.

I would like to stress that this integrated coastal zone management is not a procedure for land-use planning per se.

I am sure that the final text will be an important step in encouraging the application of integrated coastal zone management in Europe.

It is completely unacceptable that some Member States have a very good integrated coastal zone management strategy and plans, whereas other countries do not.

This gives reason for the effects of changes in the upstream fluvial environment to be included into the Integrated coastal zone management framework.

Mr President, integrated coastal zone management is a necessity, but unfortunately many still do not know what it is.

In these circumstances, to vote in favour of a strategy for integrated coastal zone management would be pure hypocrisy.

Alternatively, integrated coastal zone management approaches may be used to prevent development in erosion- or flood-prone areas to begin with.

Integrated coastal zone management initiatives usually focus on a central coordinating mechanism which requires comparatively low levels of core funding.

A framework directive already exists, but other instruments need to be enhanced, especially as regards integrated coastal zone management and maritime spatial planning.

In order to encourage Member States to assume their full responsibility in promoting integrated coastal zone management, the Commission has introduced the proposed recommendation.

An integrated coastal zone management strategy can in fact provide a suitable framework for the sustainable exploitation of these zones and the activities carried out in them.

Through the Watershed Approach, integrated coastal zone management tools and watershed concepts can be applied in the development of comprehensive management and conservation plans.

Mr President, the principles of integrated coastal zone management are accepted worldwide as a mechanism to enable sustainable management of coastal areas.

The Commission is concerned that Amendments Nos 16 and 42 might give an incorrect, narrow impression of the breadth of the integrated coastal zone management approach.

Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)

The Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) appears to be a key element for the sustainable development of these zones.

I am astonished at some of the opposition to the idea of binding legislation because it is essential to secure adequate funding for integrated coastal zone management initiatives across Europe.

For instance, the EU-funded integrated coastal zone management projects such as the Atlantic Living Coastline in the UK and others have since ceased.

The implementation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management will of course draw some of its credits from the European Fisheries Fund.

IKZM-Oder (Research for Integrated Coastal Zone Management in the Oder estuary region)

In my own country, the Bantry Bay coastal zone chart is the only agreed integrated coastal zone management plan in the whole of the country at the present time.

Although we are only now beginning to recognise the new challenges that will face the coastal regions in the decades to come, the integrated coastal zone management strategy cannot decently ignore them.