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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10677
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) sea

Consultation on seabed mapping

Brussels, 29/08/2012 (Agence Europe) - The oceans and seas of the EU offer new perspectives for growth and jobs and in order to make the best use of this potential, it is vital to get to know better what goes on under the sea. This is why the European Commission on Wednesday 29 August proposed the creation of a digital map of the seabeds of the European waters by 2020. It makes this suggestion in a Green Paper on knowledge of the marine environment, adopted the same day. This document...