Dir. Diana Tenea, Teofil Oliver Gerca
Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration
Directorate General for Regional Development and Infrastructure
+40 372 114 519
+40 752 196 153
diana.tenea@mdrap.ro teofil.gherca@mdrap.ro
Dr.Eng. Mihaela Laurenta Alexandrov
National Institute for Marine Research and Development “Griore Antipa”
Department of Living Marine Resources
+40 241 543288
+40 729 831510
Cross-Border MARitime Spatial PLANning in the Black Sea
EU DG MARE Calls for proposals
€2.050.000
The MARSPLAN BS Project main objectives are:
- To support the implementation of the EU Directive for Maritime Spatial Planning in the Black Sea Basin, starting with its Member States, Romania and Bulgaria
- To create an MSP institutional framework for Romania-Bulgaria cross-border
- To develop the cooperation with all Black Sea countries in the field of MSP
- To consolidate the cross-border cooperation and the information exchange between Romania and Bulgaria
- To set out the vision and strategic goals for Black Sea area on MSP, taking into account the land sea interaction
- To elaborate MSP Plan for the Romania – Bulgaria cross-border area
- To contribute to a wider dissemination of all gathered information concerning MSP field, Black Sea area, best practices and stakeholders.
The MARSPLAN project has planned
- to elaborate MPS Methodology, MSP indicators, MSP legislation support, plans;
- to elaborate a complete analysis of the Romanian and Bulgarian marine areas
- to design a MSP Plan for Romania-Bulgaria cross-border area
- to develop MSP strategies, vision
The project included five pilot case areas:
- Eforie area - Romania
- Sfantul Gheorghe – Romania
- Bourgas Port – Bulgaria
- New ship routing system in territorial seas of Bulgaria and Romania
- Aquaculture and fisheries
In addition partners engaged national, transnational & regional (Black Sea) bodies, non EU members, representatives of Black Sea Commission (from Istanbul), organisations, administrative and research institutions, NGOs in a dialogue on a Black Sea level. Through a sequence of workshops and different events, the project sought to increase public and stakeholder understanding of what MSP means to them and the transnational nature of their topic.
Project partners
- Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration, Bucharest (RO) – Lead Partner
- Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works, Sofia (BG)
- Ministry of Environment, Department of Water, Forests and Fisheries, Bucharest (RO)
- National Institut for Marine Research and Development “G.Antipa”, Constanta (RO)
- “Danube Delta” National Institut for Research and Development, Tulcea (RO)
- National Institute for Research and Development in Construction, Urban Planning and Sustainable Development (RO)
- “Ovidius” University of Constanta (RO)
- Executive Agency "Maritime Administration", Sofia (BG)
- Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company, Sofia (BG)
- Institute of Oceanology - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BG)