ESPON 2.1.5: Territorial Impacts of European Fisheries Policy

ESPON 2.1.5: Territorial Impacts of ESPON 2.1.5: Territorial Impacts of European Fisheries PolicyEuropean Fisheries Policy

Second Interim ReportPrepared for the Luxembourg Seminar 17-18 May 2005

Ove Langeland, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional research, (NIBR), Norway

Background and aim of projectBackground and aim of project

• The European fisheries policy (CFP) - sector policy with substantial implications for: – employment, cohesion and regional

economic strength, particularly in some coastal regions and in fisheries dependent areas.

• ESPON Project 2.1.5 – strengthen the knowledge of territorial, social and economic cohesion through an analysis of territorial impacts of the CFP.

Changes in the European Fisheries Policy Changes in the European Fisheries Policy (CFP(CFP))

• Conservation of fish stocks• Restructuring of fishing and fish farming• Organisation of the market for fish and

associated products • Agreements on fishing with third

countries (European Commission 2004)

Territorial impact analysisTerritorial impact analysis• Work packages:

– Impacts on employment, social cohesion and demography (WP3)– Impacts on regional economic strength (WP4)– Impacts on environment and coastal zone management (WP5)

• Special focus on:– Disparities between regions within EU/EFTA and inside the different

nations– Impacts within different types of coastal regions - identify regions

most negatively and positively affected by changes in European fisheries policy.

– Examine the possibility for doing intra regional/area analyses on different geographical levels - analyses related to ESPD perspectives as polycentric development and a balanced rural-urban development.

Methodological challenges and data availabilityMethodological challenges and data availability

• Time period of analysis:– Ex-ante:

• Simulation of changes in policy interventions - models and assessment techniques

• Evaluation - SWOT analysis or other qualitative techniques of planned financial support to the European fishery sector

– Ex-post:• Analyse impacts of similar type of changes which are assumed

to follow from CFP - fleet reduction, quotas etc• Geographical level of analysis:

– Mapping:• ESPON-space – ESPON database• Example studies – selected national data sources and studies

• Cause and effects:– Changes in CFP - only one of several external factors which may

have territorial impacts on coastal regions and fishery dependent areas

Main typology of coastal regions Main typology of coastal regions

• include every NUTS 3 regions within ESPON with a coastline, i.e. territories bordering an ocean

• partly be based on previous ESPON territorial typologies• differentiate between typological elements and a main typology• take specific coastal issues into consideration • be both site (demography, business structure) and situation oriented

(proximity)• to some extent be based on statistics at lower geographical levels than

NUTS 3 or typological elements based on such geographical levels – which means that the typology should include internal diversity in each NUTS 3 regions as a criterion

• include a criterion for functional regions within the territories (FUA) - possible for example studies in smaller geographical areas to be connected to a sub territorial geographical typological level within the NUTS 3 region

• define typologies where the difference between regions within each type should be as small as possible, and difference between types as big as possible

NUTS 2 region with coastal borderNUTS 2 region with coastal border

NUTS 3 region with coastal borderNUTS 3 region with coastal border

Typology of coastal regions (NUTS 3)Typology of coastal regions (NUTS 3)

Policy recommendation and further work Policy recommendation and further work

• Policy recommendation:– Consider that CFP may produce different impacts

in different regions, and in different types of regions

– Counteract impacts of CFP which contradict aims of cohesion, territorially balanced development and polycentrism.

– Consider territorial distribution of innovation in the fisheries

• Further work:– Mapping and example studies – data collection– Methodological approach (TIA)– Other ESPON studies