16/12/2025 (Agence Europe) – On Monday 15 December, the European Commission launched a public consultation and a call for evidence (https://aeur.eu/f/k0n) ahead of the forthcoming revision of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. This initiative follows the publication of the evaluation of this directive in March 2025. This showed that, although the directive is an ambitious framework, it has not fully achieved its ecological goal of delivering clean, healthy and productive seas....