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The Trilateral Cooperation Area

DELIMITATION WADDEN SEA AREA AND CONSERVATION AREA

(Annex 2 Esbjerg-II-Declaration, 2001)

The geographical range of the Wadden Sea Plan is the Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation Area, in short, Wadden Sea Area, which is

• the area seaward of the main dike, or where the main dike is absent, the spring-high-tide-water line, and in the rivers, the brackish-water limit;
• an offshore zone 3 nautical miles from the baseline as fixed nationally or where the Conservation Area exceeds the 3 nautical mile the offshore boundaries of the Conservation Area;
• the corresponding inland areas to the designated Ramsar and/or EC Bird Directive areas being the adjacent inland marsh areas of the Danish Wadden Sea Region designated as international nature protection areas and the Bird Directive Areas of Schleswig-Holstein adjacent to the Conservation Area;
• the islands.

The trilateral conservation area, in short the Conservation Area, is situated within the Wadden Sea Area, and consists of:

• in The Netherlands, the areas under Key Planning Decision Wadden Sea;
• in Germany, the Wadden Sea national parks and the protected areas under the Nature Conservation Act seaward of the main dike and the brackish water limit including the Dollard;
• in Denmark, the Wildlife and Nature Reserve Wadden Sea.

A map of the Wadden Sea Area and the Conservation Area is in Appendix I:

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