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Document 52009DC0538
Towards integrated maritime surveillance
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Towards integrated maritime surveillance
The European Commission has set out guiding principles for the establishment of integrated maritime surveillance. These guiding principles will help Member States to establish a common information sharing environment for the maritime domain between the different user communities such as the authorities responsible for maritime safety and security, fisheries control, marine pollution, the marine environment, customs, border control, law enforcement and defence.
ACT
Communication from the Commission of 15 October 2009 – Towards the integration of maritime surveillance: A common information sharing environment for the EU maritime domain [COM(2009) 538 final - Not published in the Official Journal].
SUMMARY
In the European Union, most data relating to maritime affairs is processed by sectoral authorities. These authorities are responsible for the surveillance and monitoring of activities at sea in the sector under their responsibility, without necessarily informing their counterparts in other sectors. This is a drawback, since the sharing of this data makes it possible to increase the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of maritime surveillance activities.
Data sharing and interoperability between maritime surveillance systems pose certain technical and legal problems, however, as well as problems from a security perspective. In this Communication, the Commission identifies these problems and puts forward solutions.
Obstacles to the integration of maritime surveillance
The main obstacles to the creation of a common information sharing environment are as follows:
Solutions for the integration of maritime surveillance
The creation of a common information sharing environment is based on compliance with the following Guiding Principles:
These four Guiding Principles will serve to trigger a reflection process at EU and Member State level which will need to encompass all user communities. They may be revised in light of the outcome of three projects aimed at evaluating the ability of users from different Member States and user communities to exchange information.
Context
This Communication follows on from a previous Communication - An Integrated Maritime Policy for the European Union, in which the European Commission undertook to ‘take steps towards a more interoperable surveillance system to bring together existing monitoring and tracking systems used for maritime safety and security, protection of the marine environment, fisheries control, control of external borders and other law enforcement activities’.
Last updated: 08.04.2010