GPSAZORES Project. Title: 1 ST GPSAZORES Meeting, Ponta Delgada, 19 th January Project Coordinator: Helena Calado (University of The Azores)

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1 GPSAZORES Project Title: 1 ST GPSAZORES Meeting, Ponta Delgada, 19 th January 2017 Project Coordinator: Helena Calado (University of The Azores) Page 1

2 IN ATTENDANCE: Universidade dos Açores- Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso (FGF): Helena Calado (HC) (Coordinator) Fabiana Moniz (FM) Marta Vergílio (MV) Ana Cristina Costa (AC) Mario Cana Varona (MCV) Artur Gil (AG) Daniela Gabriel (DG) Paulo Borges (PB) António Medeiros (AM) Mario Pinho (Skype) MD. Mostafa Monwar (MM) Seascape consultants Ltd David Johnson (DJ) Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH- UNL) Carlos Pereira da Silva (CS) Catarina Fonseca (CF) Universidade de Sevilha Juan Vivero (JV) Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa José Guerreiro da Silva (JS) Kiat Ng (KN) DDDD Productions Enterprise Carlos Cabral (CC) Page 2

3 19 th January 2017 Table 1: GPS Azores 1 st Meeting - Agenda 10:00 ResearchTeam-Welcome 10:15 Project Presentation - Prof. Helena Calado 10:45 Changes to the Project and Experts role/tasks 11:15 Discussion 11:45 Website and Logo/Layout Presentation 12:15 Lunch 14:00 Framework Presentation (Md. Mostafa Monwar) 15:00 Communications, Schedule and deadlines 15:30 Discussion 16:00 Conclusions and Suggestions 1. Research Team-Welcome (HC) The meeting began with a welcome by Professor Helena Calado (HC) who formally opened the meeting with introductions and a run-through of the agenda. Figure 1: The GPS Azores Project Team Page 3

4 2. Presentation: Expectations of Projects (HC) Helena Calado (HC) gave a presentation on the overview of the GPS Azores project, including the objectives, structure and project partners. Figure 2: Project Presentation 3. Changes to the Project and Experts role/tasks After the project overview it was agreed that Task 1. International Legal and Political Framework will incorporate information from Azores and all countries of the North Atlantic, but the others tasks (Task 2. Ocean Governance, Task 3. Azorean Scenarios and MSP, Task 4. Strategic Assessment and Task 5. Map Viewer) will focus just on the Azores case study. The Team also agreed that Task 2 Ocean Governance should be a global task that will developed throughout project. HC presented the proposal for the leading experts for each task: Task 1. International Legal and Political Framework: Helena Calado, Md. Mostafa Monwar, & Marta Chantal (tbc) Task 2. Ocean Governance: Juan Vivero; Helena Calado, Kiat Ng, Aldino Campos, Fabiana Moniz, Mario Pinho. Page 4

5 Task 3. Azorean Scenarios in MSP: David Johnson, Carlos Pereira da Silva and Catarina Fonseca Task 4. Strategic Assessment: José Guerreiro; Md. Mostafa Monwar, Helena Calado, Anunciação Ventura Task 5. Map Viewer: Mario Caña & António Medeiros Figure 3: Task leaders Proposal It was agreed that the leading experts should draw up the methodology proposal for their task by the middle of March. Page 5

6 4. Website and Logo/Layout Presentation (DDDD) DDDD Productions, represented by CC, presented the Logo and website structure proposal. Figure 4: Website layout Figure 5: Website structure proposal Page 6

7 5. Framework Presentation (MD. Mostafa Monwar) MM gave a presentation of the work already done for the Task 1. International Legal and Political Framework. The output of that work was the construction of horrendograms of the International and national legislative instruments that give protection to the marine environment (Portugal, France, UK, Canada, USA, Ireland, Iceland and Spain). Figure 6: Horrendogram of the International legislation that gives protection to the marine environment (e.g. Canada) Page 7

8 The team members agreed to analyse the horrendograms and validate it by the end of February. Figure 7: MD. Mostafa Monwar Presentation MM also presented the questionnaire (Table 2) for the Task 3. Strategic Assessment and Discuss indicators for SEA. All the team members will send some inputs by the end of February. Page 8

9 Table 2: Reference Indicators and Questions for the Strategic Framework of the North Atlantic Region/Countries Issues (Is) Goals (G) Objectives (O) Indicators (I) Question (Q) Supporting Question (Q) or Suggestions Is 01. National G 01. O 01. Assessing I 01. Existence and Q 01. Have your country SQ 01. Please specify if there are strategies and Evaluating the adequacy of adequacy of developed specific any policy documents, Acts, framework for institutional, legislation and legislation enabling legislation and/or policy for specific laws, or provisions within the policy and legal regulations related ocean the management of the general laws for ocean management arrangements to ocean management oceans and its resources management and if there is of the North management as along with the EU enforcement and application for Atlantic well as Strategic recommendations. them. Environment I 02. Existence and Q 02. What is the legal SQ 02. Please specify if there are Assessment (SEA) adequacy of framework of your country any policy documents, acts, legislation enabling SEA based on SEA specific laws, or provisions within general laws for SEA and if there is enforcement and application for O 02. Assessing the coordination and coherence of I 03. Existence and functioning of respective coordinating Q 03. What are the requirements to implement SEA in your country Q 04. What are the obligations to implement the SEA in your country Q 05. Have your country established a coordinating or management body involving key government them. SQ 03. Please provide if you have specific suggestions and comments about it. SQ 04. Please provide if you have specific suggestions and comments about it. SQ 05. Please specify if a centralised body or an existing body reinforced with integrated functions or an inter-department Page 9

10 G 02. Evaluating ocean management and implementation G 03. Evaluating information, knowledge and capacities administrative actors and policy O 03. Assessing the adequacy of administrative resources devoted to ocean management and SEA O 04. Assessing the availability of technology applied to ocean management O 05. Assessing the adequate levels of information, knowledge and capacities for ocean management and SEA mechanism ocean management. for I 04. Availability and allocation of human, technical and financial resources for ocean management I 05. Use of technology to enable and support ocean management I 06. Intergradations of strategic framework or SEA with ocean management departments with responsibilities on ocean resources and management? Q 06. Is there sufficient number of human resources available for the management of the oceans? Q 07. Are there sufficient facilities and financial support allocated to the strategic framework? Q 08. What kind of technologies do your country use to support ocean data acquisition and management for SEA? Q 09. Does SEA adapted to the marine environment in your country during ocean management. Q 10. Do all the steps are considered during the preparation of SEA in your coordinating committee has been established to implement the strategic framework for the ocean SQ 06. Please provide if you have specific suggestions about it. SQ 07. Please provide if you have specific suggestions about it. SQ 08. Please indicate the availability of modern technology, oceanographic research vessels with number of expeditions etc. Do you have any suggestion for it? SQ 09. If yes, please what types of major information were provided to the stakeholders and peoples during the preparation of SEA. Please describe the role of SEA during ocean management plan in your country SQ 10. Please provide if you have specific recommendations and comments about it. Page 10

11 Is 02. Progress in the regional initiatives at the national level G 04. Evaluating the implementation of regional agreements and initiatives to Strategic Framework O 06. Assessing the adequate implementation of regional agreements I 07. Ratification and implementation of regional agreements relevant to ocean management country followed by SEA Directive 1? Q 11 What challenges have your country faced in the implementation of the OSPAR Convention 2? What are the counters measures of these challenges? Q 12. Have your country ratified and progressed in the implementation of the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention 3 )? Q 13. What challenges have your country faced in the implementation of the Espoo Convention? What are the counters measures of these challenges? Q 14. Have your country ratified and progressed in the implementation of the Kyiv (SEA) Protocol 4? SQ 11 Please describe the difficulties encountered when implementing the agreements and possible measures to improve their implementation SQ 12. Please indicate the specific measures carried out upon the compliance of the provisions of the Convention SQ 13. Please describe the difficulties encountered when implementing the agreements and possible measures to improve their implementation. SQ 14. Please indicate the specific measures carried out upon the compliance of the provisions of the Convention Page 11

12 O 07. Assessing the adequate implementation of regional initiatives I 08. Participation and implementation of regional initiatives relevant to ocean management Q 15. What challenges have your country faced in the implementation of the Kyiv (SEA) Protocol? What are the counters measures of these challenges? Q 16. Have your country take initiatives to implement the EU North Atlantic Strategy 5? Q 17. Have your country take initiatives to implement the Galway Statement 6? Q 18. What challenges have your country faced in the implementation of Galway Statement? What are the counters measures of these challenges? SQ 15. Please describe the difficulties encountered when implementing the agreements and possible measures to improve their implementation. SQ 16. Please indicate the specific measures carried out upon the compliance of the provisions of the Strategy. SQ 17. Please indicate the specific measures carried out upon the compliance of the provisions of the Statement. SQ 18. Please describe the difficulties encountered when implementing the agreements and possible measures to improve their implementation. 1 SEA directive: 2 OSPAR Home: OSPAR Convention: 3 Espoo Home: Espoo Convention: 4 The Kyiv (SEA) Protocol Home: Page 12

13 The Kyiv (SEA) Protocol: 5 EU North Atlantic Strategy Home: EU North Atlantic Strategy: Action Plan of EU North Atlantic Strategy: 6 Galway Statement: Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance: Page 13

14 6. Communications, Schedule and deadlines HC highlighted the next steps and deadlines for the 1 st year, summarizing and closing the meeting. Table 3: Next Steps Action Responsibility Due By Status 1st Research Meeting HC Jan 17 completed Circulate 1st Research Meeting Report FM ASAP between all team members Submission Report 1st Research HC; FM mar17 On-going Meeting Send project information for the website FM ASAP On-going Project Website DDDD Apr 17 On-going Inputs for SEA Questionnaire All Feb 17 On-going Horrendograms Validation All Feb 17 On-going Tasks methodology proposal All Task Leaders Mar 17 On-going 1 International Paper (legal framework) Jul 17 1 communication in congress July17 1 st online Meeting All Jan Conclusions and Suggestions All team members agreed to disseminate the project in order to captivate master and Phd students to develop thesis under GPS Azores project themes. HC asked to all task leaders to establish connections between GPSAzores and other projects with interest for knowledge exchange. After that, HC summed up and closed the meeting thanking to all the team members for their participation in the session. Page 14