Coastal climate resilience: review of policies and regulations

This Deliverable will collateanalyze relevant International and European policiesplans legislation and regulation relevant to coastal flood risk This deliverable will identify and classify needsobligations stemming from existing international and European policies and legislation as well as from nationallocal plans and regulation selected cases only The main contributions of this deliverable are 1 The collection of existing policies and plans associated with the assessment and management of coastal flood risk in Europe International policies to which EU member states adhere to such as the UN SDGs the 2015 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the 2016 Regional Climate Change Adaptation Framework for the Mediterranean Marine and Coastal Areas will be considered in addition to relevant EU policies and plans 2 The collectionanalysis of relevant legislation at different levels ie International European and national selected test cases Examples of international instruments the compliance to which depends on information that can be provided by the proposed additional Copernicus services are i the 2015 Paris Agreement which prescribes obligations for the State Parties for National Adaptation plans that require coastal flood awareness and management under different climatic scenarios ii the 2008 ICZM Protocol to Barcelona Convention Art 82 that prescribes set back zones for the Mediterranean European coast and iii the 1998 Aarhus Convention on Access to Information Public Participation in Decisionmaking and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters At the European level in addition to the Floods Directive 200760EC that requires assessmentmanagement of the coastal flood risk there are various European Directives that create obligations which may require the proposed services such as the Water Framework Directive 200060EC the amended EIA Directive 201452EU and the Marine Spatial Planning Directive 201489EU