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European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) – Maritime spatial planning (MSP) Projects – 2024

EMFAF – The European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund aims at ensuring that aquatic and maritime resources are used sustainably.

2024-06-11
2.5 million euro
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Call synthesis

Call reference EMFAF-2024-PIA-MSP
Programme European Maritime and Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF)
Institution European Commission
Sectors Agriculture & Fisheries Energy Environment & Climate Research & Innovation Tourism Transport
Beneficiaries State administration & affiliated entities

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Call reference

EMFAF-2024-PIA-MSP



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Priorities and funded actions

Objectives

  • To facilitate the implementation of Maritime Spatial Planning in the EU, including through the effective application of Directive 2014/89 establishing a framework for MSP
  • To reflect and align national maritim saptial plans to the ambition of the European Green Deal
  • To cater for cumulative impacts of ocean stressors
  • To reinforce the sea basin dimension of MSP
  • To make MSP digital and pan-European

Priorities

  • Priority 1: MSP as an enabler of the European Green Deal. Developing strategies and approaches to review/revise maritime spatial plans to make them future proof, more integrated and more coherent, especially in a sea basin context
  • Priority 2: Facilitate/enable the development of marine protected areas and economic sectors (e.g. tourism and maritime/underwater cultural heritage, offshore energy, fisheries, aquaculture) in the maritime domain
  • Priority 3: Applying an Ecosystems Based Approach (EBA) in MSP
  • Priority 4: Analysing how maritime spatial plans identified and addressed existing and potential tensions between different sectors

Among financed actions

  • Specific activities aimed at implementing provisions set out in the MSP Directive (article 6 to 12)
  • Establishment of a Steering Committee (SC) to ensure the overall strategic steering of the project
  • Establishment of an Advisory Committee (AC) to provide expert advice on the project’s activities
  • Working procedures defining how the project and the SC will operate
  • An opening and closing conference

Eligibility

  • Be a legal person
  • Be a public or private entity
  • Be public authorities or bodies in charge of maritime spatial planning of coastal Member States
  • Be legal entities endorsed by the public authorities or bodies in charge of maritime spatial planning at national level in the related coastal Member States
  • Be established in one of the eligible countries:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
    • Non-EU states in the Atlantic Baltic Sea, Black Sea, North Seas and the Mediterranean, or having waters adjacent to EU Outermost Regions
  • A consortium composed of at least 2 entities, established in at least 2 different eligible countries, must be constituted
  • The coordinator must be established in an EU Member State

Additional information

  • Initial duration of the action: between 24 and 48 months
  • Contact : CINEA-EMFAF-CALLS@ec.europa.eu

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 2.5 million euro
  • Amount of the grant: 2.5 million euro
  • Funding rate: up to 80% of the total eligible costs