the marine environment monitoring service, which is to provide information on the state and dynamics of physical ocean and marine ecosystems for the global ocean and the European regional marine areas, in support of marine safety, contribution to monitoring of waste flows, marine environmental, coastal and polar regions, and of marine resources as well as meteorological forecasting and climate monitoring;

One should use these wisely, keeping in mind the important role of the Union as a guardian of the natural environment, which undoubtedly includes the oceanic ecosystem.

In addition to being the vice-chair of the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, I'm a professor of oceanography at Dalhousie University and chairman and CEO of Satlantic Incorporated, a high-technology company that specializes in the manufacture of sensors and systems for measuring the ocean environment.

19. Expresses its concern that Action 2 appears to limit the Commission to the Natura 2000 network as the only tool to protect biodiversity and considers that the protection and conservation aspect of this communication should be put beyond the limits of the Natura 2000 network, which is restricted to the marine environment; suggests, accordingly, that the Commission draw up specific plans and programmes to solve practical problems or to ensure the recovery of particularly important species, such as posidonia oceanica, and ecosystems which are currently under serious threat;

Second, an integrated approach to oceans management will help ocean stakeholders to consider a wide range of ocean activities all in one big picture.

Ms. Patterson: If you look at the situation I described, when we were attempting to negotiate the settlement, to try to move away from the court case, and we asked the province to maintain their own regulations, which are to keep a healthy ocean, oxic, and then for the province to say to us, " No, sorry, we won't do that. We will not guarantee that," despite that it's in the regulations.