"This goes to the heart of coastal zone management and the Marine Recreation zone."

Marine affairs, including coastal zone management (except for measures relating to oil and other pollution of navigable waters).

Member States should adopt binding measures to ensure good coastal zone management.

This should happen not later than three years after the adoption of the current recommendation on integrated coastal zone management.

So there really is an urgent need to tackle coastal zone management.

Mr President, integrated coastal zone management is a necessity, but unfortunately many still do not know what it is.

The issue of integrated coastal zone management is of crucial importance to my constituents in Scotland.

I would like to stress that this integrated coastal zone management is not a procedure for land-use planning per se.

I am sure that the final text will be an important step in encouraging the application of integrated coastal zone management in Europe.

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