The SEArica Intergroup Launch Conference (2025-2029)
Shaping an ambitious EU Oceans Pact together
The SEArica Intergroup Launch Conference (2025-2029)
Hosted by MEP Christophe Clergeau, Chair of the SEArica Intergroup
Organised with the support of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions
Wednesday 05 February, 18:00-20:00
European Parliament, Spinelli 3G2, Brussels
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Healthy seas and oceans are critical to maintaining the environmental and climate cycles that sustain our planet, while also playing a central role in Europe’s socio-economic model. Yet today, the growing cumulative impacts of human activities and the vital importance of the EU’s oceans in addressing key future challenges for Europe demand a cohesive approach to ensure a balance between sustainable opportunities and environmental preservation and restauration.
The challenges facing our oceans are complex, interconnected, and escalating, requiring an adapted response at EU level. The European Oceans Pact, first announced by President Ursula von der Leyen in her political guidelines 2024-2029, could serve as a transformative opportunity to build the next generation of EU policies affecting oceans.
In this context, the SEArica Members of the European Parliament invite you to the inaugural event of the SEArica Intergroup 2024-2029 to lay the groundwork for shaping, together, an ambitious EU Oceans Pact.
Event Properties
Event Date | 05-02-2025 18:00 |
Event End Date | 05-02-2025 20:00 |
Location | European Parliament Brussels |
Categories | Conférence 2025-2029 |
Attachment | SEArica Launch Event_Agenda_050225.pdf |
What is an Intergroup?
The Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas Intergroup is one of the 27 Intergroups that were approved on 11 December 2019 by the Conference of Presidents for the 9th legislature of the European Parliament. Intergroups can be formed by MEPs from any political group and any parliamentary committee with a view to holding informal exchanges of views on particular issues and promoting contact between MEPs and civil society.
The Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas Intergroup brings together more than 100 MEPs from 7 different political groups and 23 Member States.
Intergroups are not Parliament bodies and therefore may not express Parliament's opinion.
Intergroups are subject to internal rules adopted by the Conference of Presidents on 16 December 1999 (last updated on 11 September 2014), which set out the conditions under which intergroups may be established at the beginning of each parliamentary term and their operating rules.