El Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente, ha organizado dos jornadas sobre la aplicación de la normativa vigente en materia de trazabilidad para los productos de la pesca y la acuicultura y la huella de carbono en el sector. Estas jornadas se enmarcan dentro del actual Plan de Acción de la Calidad de los Productos Pesqueros promovido por la Secretaría General de Pesca. Su objetivo es ayudar a todo el sector pesquero y acuícola español a implementar las medidas necesarias para la mejora integral de la calidad en toda la cadena de producción, transformación y comercialización de los productos pesqueros y de la acuicultura.

En esta línea, la Jornada “La trazabilidad en la cadena de valor de los productos de la pesca y la acuicultura” desarrolló los contenidos específicos sobre trazabilidad establecidos en el Reglamento comunitario, brindando soluciones técnicas para la implantación de los nuevos requisitos exigidos. Una implantación que adquiere mayor complicación en España, debido al elevado número de agentes implicados en la comercialización de los productos pesqueros.

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Une nouvelle publication ornithologique pour l’Afrique du Nord : Paru dernièrement et lancé le 10/05/2012 lors de la 5ième session de la réunion des Parties contractantes à l’AEWA, « L’Atlas des oiseaux d’eau hivernant en Libye » vient de combler un vide dans les données sur les oiseaux d’eau en Afrique du Nord. Cet ouvrage bilingue (Arabe-Anglais) de 312 pages décrit 110 espèces d’oiseaux d’eau observées en Libye durant les hivers de 2005 à 2010, avec des cartes de distribution et des graphiques qui reflètent l’abondance et la variation interannuelle des espèces. On y trouve aussi une carte détaillée des zones humides libyennes et leur classement selon leur importance internationale, régionale et nationale. Cet Atlas, dont l’impression a été rendu possible grâce a l’aide du Conservatoire du Littoral français, est surtout le fruit d’un travail contenu d’une équipe internationale appartenant à plusieurs organisations parmi lesquelles l’Autorité Générale de l’Environnement (EGA, Libye), Le Centre d’Activités Régionales pour les Aires Spécialement Protégées (CAR/ASP), l’Accord sur la Conservation des Oiseaux d’eau migrateurs d’Afrique-Eurasie (AEWA), l’’Institut supérieur pour la Protection et la Recherche scientifique pour l’Environnement (ISPRA, Italie), l’Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage (ONCFS, France) et l’Association « Les Amis des Oiseaux » (AAO, Partenaire de BirdLife, Tunisie).

“Tying safely” is the first and brandnew publication of the project LOSAMEDCHEM which aims to improve the logistics and the safety of transports of chemicals in the Mediterranean area.

With this publication, ther partnership intends to offer concrete recommendations on “how the logistics and the safety of the transports of chemicals could be improved in the Mediterranean area”. To achieve this, “Tying safely” compiles identified best practices and results of SWOT analysis providing a thorough examination of the current situation of the chemical industry and chemical logistics in each partner’s region.

Each partner provided SWOT analysis following standardized models. All these information are gathered in the present publication. Each of the presented studies includes a short overview of the partner’s region, of the local chemical industry and of the logistics and transportation infrastructure, accompanied by the most significant traffic data.

In particular, the regional SWOT analysis, including the results of the expert interviews and workshops, provides some details of emerged needs and measures required for future actions and improvements.

The publication is now available online (click here). For further information, please check the website or contact Mr. Filippo Manfredda (losamedchem@provincia.novara.it).

Canción de Ecologistas en Acción en defensa del manglar y de las comunidades afectadas por la acuicultura industrial de langostinos.

Puedes ver la letra de la canción aquí.

The launching meeting of the GOUV’AIRNANCE project was held in Tripoli the 17, 18 and 19 April 2012. Organized by the urban community Al Fayhaa, in collaboration with the Institute for the Mediterranean, this event signs the start of the project. There was the occasion to have a rewarding meeting and a concrete change of the state of the quality of the air and the surveillance dispositive nowadays in the partner territories: Tripoli, Aqaba, Valence, Marseille. The meeting  permitted also the sharing of information between local  actors, central authorities, universities and international institutes operating in Liban  in the battle against the air pollution.

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Reblogged from Coastal & MarinE-News:

Source: DG MARE, EC

Tourism is undoubtedly an economic backbone of coastal regions. At present about 2.36 million people are employed in the coastal tourism sector, representing 1.1% total EU employment.

Cruise tourism alone represents a distinct segment generating direct turnover of € 14.5 billion and nearly 150,000 jobs. At the same time, this sector faces specific challenges, such as seasonality (dependency on the sun and beach tourism), lack of skilled professionals and of innovation culture and growing external competition.

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One of the Forum’s objective is to develop recommendations and a strategic roadmap to guide the actions to be implemented by 2020 and move towards a coherent and well-managed MPA network.
For more information on the Forum’s objectives, please refer to the concept note.

Meetings and discussions will be organised in several ways (plenary sessions, workshops, special sessions, exhibition stands, etc..) in order to stimulate exchanges and allow the various stakeholders present to express their views.

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Pafos, Cyprus

LitusGo aimed at filling this training gap through the development of a well-structured, innovative, interactive, work-linked vocational training programme, directly focused on Mediterranean Local Authorities and NGOs and through them to practitioners, tuned to accommodate Mediterranean particularities and needs especially in touristic coastal areas. The methodology was based on problem solving.

This EC Leonardo funded project, which counted with EUCC participation providing know-how, held the final event last 24/4/2012 in Pafos, Cyprus.

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The educational package is user-friendly and consists of autonomous, self-contained modules, focusing on  proposing solutions to problems. It has two forms: a paper version and a web-version. The web-version incorporates a simple wiki application within the training documents. The dedicated website is hosting the web-package and includes, apart from information, a forum and an e-alarm-news facility. The methodology that has been implemented is presented in a guide. All the products have been tested and finalised during the project and are available for general use by interested actors. Information leaflets and posters have supported the work throughout. Seminars and 2 Stakeholder workshops were organised and all material translated into English, Greek, Maltese and Turkish.

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El Ministro de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente, Miguel Arias Cañete, ha defendido hoy en Bruselas que la participación de España en el Fondo Marítimo Europeo y de la Pesca “se mantenga en los niveles que hemos tenido en el pasado, que ha sido del 26%, de tal forma que podamos aspirar a unas cifras muy próximas a los 1.800 millones de euros en el nuevo periodo de programación”.

A la entrada del Consejo Europeo de Política Pesquera, Arias Cañete ha destacado que el Fondo Marítimo Europeo y de la Pesca “es un instrumento de enorme importancia para España por lo que nos parece razonable que la Comisión haya conseguido en las propuestas iniciales situar un escenario presupuestario superior a los 6.500 millones de euros, cifra que nosotros consideramos aceptable”. Ahora, ha completado el ministro, “tenemos que analizar los criterios de reparto”.

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Colloque “Les Zones Humides Méditerranéennes hier et aujourd’hui”, 20-22 septembre 2012

Dans le cadre de ce colloque inte rnational à venir en Italie (Padoue) en septembre 2012, le Groupe d’histoire des zones humides et l’université de Padoue appellent les propositions de communication. La date limite de dépôt des candidatures est prolongée jusqu’au 30 mai 2012.

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