Maritime Spatial Planning and Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Adriatic and Ionian Region: EU Approach

The legal regime on Adriatic and Ionian basins results from various forms of international cooperation, which was developed, during the time, by autonomous policies, through the sector-specific rules, not always in a coordinated manner.These factors evidently compromise a good degree of systemic coherence in the overall management of activities in this basin, concerning in particular transport, trade, port and coastal industry, fishing, aquaculture and, increasingly, marine research, renewable energy, technology, innovation and resource exploitation.