Conservation policy and legislation

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Since international and European relations often work best within a framework of agreed legal instruments, considerable effort has been devoted to developing a series of conventions and other international and European instruments that promote the conservation of marine biological diversity.
These include:

  • Conventionon Bioological Diversity (CBD)
  • EU Common Fisheries Policy
  • EC Habitats Directive
    • SAC (Special Areas of Conservation)
  • EC Bird Directive
    • SPA (special Protected Areas)
  • MPAs (Marine Protected Areas)
  • ICZM (Integrated Coastal Zone Management)
  • EBM (Ecosystem based Management