Press Release: EU maritime security strategy approved

On the initiative of the Hellenic Presidency, the Council of the European Union on the 24 June 2014 endorsed an EU maritime security strategy as a framework for effectively and comprehensively addressing the EU's maritime security challenges.

The objective is to secure the EU's maritime security interests against risks and threats in the global maritime domain, such as cross-border and organised crime, threats to freedom of navigation, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or environmental risks. The strategy covers both internal and external aspects of the Union's maritime security in a cross-sectorial and comprehensive approach.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: A European strategy to make our seas and oceans more secure http://www.europeansources.info/record/speech-a-european-strategy-to-make-our-seas-and-oceans-more-secure/

ESO: Background information: Towards an EU integrated approach to global maritime security http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-towards-an-eu-integrated-approach-to-global-maritime-security/

European Commission: RAPID: MEMO/14/161: Q& A's for a European Union Maritime Security Strategy http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-161_en.htm

ESO: Background information: Maritime Challenges for the EU: Ensuring the security of our seas http://www.europeansources.info/record/speech-maritime-challenges-for-the-eu-ensuring-the-security-of-our-seas/

ESO: Background information: European Maritime Security Strategy: Moving Forward http://www.europeansources.info/record/speech-european-maritime-security-strategy-moving-forward/

European Commission: Maritime Affairs http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/index_en.htm

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