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Marine strategy part one: UK updated assessment and good environmental status
Publication Year
2019
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Sets out how Good Environmental Status (GES) will be achieved in the UK's marine waters over the next 6 years. GES involves protecting the marine environment, preventing its deterioration and restoring it where practical, while using marine resources sustainably. Covers three areas: updated assessment of the state of the UK's seas; high level objectives for GES; and detailed GES targets and indicators of GES which will be used to measure progress toward achieving GES in the UK's seas.
Document History
Supersedes Marine strategy part one: UK initial assessment and good environmental status (HM Government, 2012). Jointly published by DEFRA, the Northern Ireland Executive, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government.
ISBN
9780101905442
Publisher Information
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is a UK Government department. They are committed to tackling climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and work to secure a healthy, resilient, productive and diverse natural environment. This work has formerly been carried out by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Department of the Environment.
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