Marine data infrastructure

Building on an earlier Study, the present Study seeks to assess the economic benefits of moving towards a regime for the sharing and multiple use of marine data and to evaluate the legal options of such a regime.

More specifically the Terms of Reference (ToR) for the present Study specified that four separate tasks were to be undertaken. These are:
(a) Task One, an analysis of present marine data collection infrastructure;
(b) Task Two, an assessment of how much time and money is spent by various public and private data user organisation on different types of marine data;
(c) Task Three, an evaluation of the benefit of reducing uncertainty (in other words the opportunity cost of uncertainty) in connection with sea-level rise; and
(d) Task Four, an analysis of the legal instruments that the EU could deploy for the establishment of the European Marine
Observation and Data Network (EMODNET).