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The
Tenth
Trilateral
Governmental Conference
on the Protection of the
Wadden Sea
Schiermonnikoog, November 3, 2005 |
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Schiermonnikoog
Declaration |
Ministerial Declaration
(all languages, photos)
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(pdf, 4.5
MB) |
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English
and Preface |
(pdf, 400 kb, with photos) |
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Dansk
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(pdf, 50 kb, text only) |
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Deutsch
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(pdf, 50 kb, text only) |
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Nederlands  |
(pdf, 50 kb, text only) |
Policy Assessment
Report
English /
Danish |
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Joint Progress Report
(Implementation of the Esbjerg
Declaration 2001 and Wadden Sea Plan) |
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Signing of the
Schiermonnikoog Ministerial Declaration.
From left to right: State Secretary Simone Probst (Germany),
Minister Cees Veerman (The Netherlands, chairperson), Deputy
Director General Anne-Marie Rassmussen (Denmark). |
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The 10th Trilateral
Governmental Conference on the Protection of the Wadden Sea was held
on the Dutch Wadden Sea island of Schiermonnikoog on 2-3 November 2005
under the
chairmanship of the Dutch Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food
Quality, Cees Veerman. The German and the Danish governments were
represented by Parliamentary State
Secretary Simone Probst and Deputy Director General Anne-Marie
Rasmussen.
The conference made the
start with the actual nomination of a major part of the
Wadden Sea as World Heritage Site. After the preceding consultations,
Germany and The
Netherlands will now make a start with the nomination procedure.
A further issue discussed at
the meeting was the report of the Wadden Sea Forum
installed at the previous conference in Esbjerg in 2001 under the chair
of the Queen’s
Commissioner of Fryslan Ed Nijpels. The report of the Wadden Sea Forum
“Breaking the Ice”
was welcomed by the conference and it was decided to continue the work
of the Forum in
the next period under the chairmanship of the chairman of county council
of Ditmarschen,
Jürgen Klimant. A primary task of the Forum will be to implement the
action plan which it
has drawn up on the basis of the strategy encompassed in “Breaking the
Ice”.
A key element in the work of
the cooperation in the next period is the further development
of the Wadden Sea Plan into a management plan in the sense of the
Habitats Directive
and other directives. This is wholly in line with the intentions of the
Joint Declaration 1982
which remains the basis for the cooperation. European Union legislation
constitutes the
overall main framework for the cooperation and the further development
of the Wadden
Sea Plan will ensure that this will be carried out in a coordinated way.
Another issue discussed was
shipping safety. A package of measures was adopted and
agreement was reached to focus on a number of areas in the forthcoming
period, such as
emergency towing and pollution response.
The International Wadden Sea
School will be continued until the next conference. The
IWSS was launched on the occasion of the 25 year cooperation in 2003 and
has been
a successful project to link schools and students from the area for a
future sustainable
conservation of the Wadden Sea as a shared area.
Further
information
The
Netherlands:
Conference website:
http://www.waddenzeeconferentie.nl/
Interwad:
http://www.waddenzee.nl/
Germany
http://www.wattenmeer-nationalpark.de/
Denmark
Skov-
og Naturstyrelsen: http://www.skovognatur.dk/Emne/Hav/Vadehavet/
Last
update: 28 March 2006
