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    Offshore energy production

    Offshore wind farms, tidal power plants and wave energy converters generate significant sound waves that have a negative effect on cetaceans. Since these cetaceans are very...
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    Northeast Atlantic cooperation OSPAR

    OSPAR is a regional convention for the protection of the marine environment of the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. It is a convention among fifteen countries: • Twelve of them...
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    Cooperation within the United Nations

    the Convention and the London Protocol that regulate the dumping of substances at sea    The cooperation, the agreements and the processes that take place at the level...
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    Environmental licences

    Any person (natural or legal person) who wishes to pursue activities in the Belgian part of the North Sea must ask himself the question whether a federal environmental licence is...
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    UNCLOS

    UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) is the  Law of the Sea convention of the United Nations (Montego Bay, 1982) and is a key convention at international...
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    The Biodiversity Convention

    The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is one of the first conventions that links the protection of biodiversity to sustainable development. It was negotiated during the...
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    CMS - ASCOBANS - MARPOL - LONDON

    A number of conventions or agreements having specific goals and important to the protection of the marine environment are drawn up as a part of the UN processes. Protection of...
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    Satellite Organisations of the UN for the marine environment

    A number of organisations are set up as a part of the United Nations or as satellite organisations. A few of these organisations are indirectly important to the marine environment...
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    Management of activities

    The Belgian part of the North Sea is one of the most used seas of the world. Human activities at sea should therefore be spatially well planned and for this a Marine Spatial...
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    Appropriate Evaluation

    The appropriate evaluation is a mandatory evaluation for projects or plans in or in the neighbourhood of Natura 2000 sites (Birds and Habitats Directives). This evaluation...