Mr Willem de Ruiter, Executive Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) and Mr Volker Liebig, Director of Earth Observation Programmes of the European Space Agency (ESA), signed an agreement between the two agencies, strengthening the framework for cooperation in the field of maritime monitoring and surveillance.
Following an open call for tenders, the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has set in place contracts for a service which will provide EU Member States with processed satellite data for the monitoring and detection of illegal discharges and accidental oil spills at sea. The main focus of the service will be to provide the Member States with continuity of service, economies of scale and rapid response times in supplying processed information.
"Towards a Future Maritime Policy for
the Union"
Irish Maritime Policy Conference, Dublin, 6th March 2007
"Economy and the Sea: Maritime Concepts from the German North"
Conference organised by the five Northern German Länder, Committee of the Regions,
Brussels, 7 March 2007
« Role of the future EU maritime policy in shaping new standards of maritime education and employment »
Brussels, March, 6th
“There is no doubt: A European Strategy for Growth and employment relies on a powerful and efficient European shipping industry: 90%of our external trade comes and goes by sea.”
La Tribune
“Faisons progresser la sécurité maritime”
Towards a future Maritime Policy for the Union: A European vision for the oceans and seas
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean"
attributed to Arthur C. Clarke