Marine Climatological Summaries Scheme

Societal challenges: €2.8 billion for innovative projects addressing Horizon 2020's seven societal challenges, broadly: health; agriculture, maritime and bioeconomy; energy; transport; climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials; reflective societies; and security.

To summarise, the objective of European Union maritime policy of achieving productive fisheries in a clean marine environment requires that the scientists that work in this field have access to horizontal funding mechanisms in the Seventh Framework Programme.

To sum up, the objective of EU maritime policy, achieving productive fishing in a clean marine environment, requires scientists working in this area to have access to horizontal financing mechanisms under the 7th FP.

These are, in short: exclusion of new construction ships built in Canadian shipyards from the present Revenue Canada leasing regulations; provision of an improved export financing and loan guarantee program similar to the Title XI program in the U.S.; provision of a refundable tax credit to Canadian shipowners and shipbuilders; and finally, modification of NAFTA or signature of a bilateral agreement with the U.S. in order to eliminate the provisions of the Jones Act which markedly disadvantage Canadian shipbuilders over their American counterparts.