On the 11th November 2019, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) held an expert discussion on the topic national and Alliance defense at the Federal Office for Infrastructure, Environmental Protection and Bundeswehr Services in Kiel. Representatives of the Bundeswehr from Kiel and Rostock were… Read More »Expert discussion on national and Alliance defense, 11 November 2019, Kiel
On the 6th November 2019, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) organized an international shipping workshop with participants from Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. During this workshop, transnational shipping traffic from the English Channel to the Baltic Sea was discussed. After an initial… Read More »Shipping workshop, 6 November 2020, Hamburg
The workshop on fisheries in the North Sea was attended by several representatives from the fisheries industry, administration and research. They stated that fisheries had a difficult position in spatial planning, as the fishing sector requires a high degree of flexibility and was therefore difficult… Read More »North Sea fisheries workshop, 5 November 2019, Hamburg
A first thematic workshop on fisheries was held at the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) office in Rostock. Representatives from fisheries administration, research and industry from Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern reaffirmed the demand for greater spatial consideration of fisheries, but also of fisheries research, in… Read More »Baltic Sea fisheries workshop, 24 October 2019, Rostock
On the 16th October 2019, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) held an expert discussion on the subject of underwater cultural heritage in Hamburg. Invited were representatives of the state authorities for culture and monument preservation from Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the National… Read More »Expert discussion on underwater cultural heritage, 16 October 2019, Hamburg
On the 9th October 2019, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) held a thematic workshop on “Marine Nature Conservation” in Hamburg. In addition to the competent environmental authorities BfN and UBA, representatives of environmental associations and BSH colleagues from the Marine Strategy Framework Directive… Read More »Workshop on marine nature conservation, 9 October 2019, Hamburg
On the 19th September 2019, the thematic workshop on raw material extraction in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) took place at the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). The aim of the workshop was the exchange of information between BSH and representatives from the industry… Read More »Workshop on raw material extraction, 19 September 2019, Hamburg
In the process to revise the objectives and principles of spatial planning for the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Communicty (BMI) sent a letter to authorities and associations on the 11th of June 2019, thus officially initiating the… Read More »Notification about the revision of the maritime spatial plans for the German Exclusive Economic Zone and query on the status of relevant sectoral planning
In 2009, the first spatial development plans for the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North Sea and Baltic Sea came into force, setting out provisions for the use and protection of the two sea areas. Since then, conditions and spatial demands changed considerably.… Read More »Revision of the maritime spatial plan for the German Exclusice Economic Zone in the North Sea and Baltic Sea