Baseline assessment on national and regional implementation of MSP and gap analysis

The objective of this report is to analyse the results of the survey about the involvement of regional authorities and other stakeholders in the MSP process. [...] After this introduction the following section 2 will describe the survey and its methodology, and section 3 will address the results of the survey including the questions related to the current status of MSP, the Regions and stakeholder engagement in MSP, the coordination between regional and national plans, data provisioning, capacity building and awareness raising, the relationship between MSP a. [...] The questions included in the survey seek to determine the current status of Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) or its equivalent in the REGINA-MSP partner countries and their regions, and Member States and regions outside the scope of the project, using the six geographical commissions of the CPMR. [...] Structured around two main modalities, for the strategic and operational aspects: - the establishment of a participatory platform on the internet allowing the public to find out about the issues, to submit their comments on the proposed vision of the future, to share them and to discuss with other contributors12;- and the organisation of citizen workshops to explore certain themes in greater depth. [...] The regional competent authority in the Azores was involved in the joint development of the components of the national MSP plan which were common to all subdivisions, via regular meetings and sharing of documentation.