Division 11.1 DefinitionsF1

In addition to the definitions set out in Article 2, the following definition shall apply:

1. (1)

   ‘manage’ means plan, perform, monitor and control activities to achieve specific legally defined environmental objectives.

2. (2)

   ‘restrict’ means prohibit or limit certain activities, to only be performed within specific bounds and/or time periods, in order to achieve a certain purpose according to legally defined responsibilities or obligations.

3. (3)

   ‘regulate’ means monitor and control certain activities (to permit, promote, prohibit, or restrict) to achieve a legally defined environmental objectives. A regulated activity may require that if the environmental status is degraded then particular actions must be enacted to restore good environmental status.

4. (4)

   ‘report’ means evaluate the effectiveness of environmental policies and publish data and information (i.e. spatial data, observations, statistics, indicators) that can be used to assess progress towards maintaining or improving good environmental status and achievement of policy objectives.

5. (5)

   ‘reporting unit’ means a spatial object that provides the spatial reference for any non-spatial data exchanged under environmental reporting obligations.

6. (6)

   ‘legal instrument’ means a document that specifies legal obligations, including, but not limited to, international conventions, laws and legal acts or implementing regulations at any administrative level.

7. (7)

   ‘integrated coastal zone management’ means a dynamic process for the sustainable management and use of coastal zones, taking into account at the same time the fragility of coastal ecosystems and landscapes, the diversity of activities and uses, their interactions, the maritime orientation of certain activities and uses and their impact on both the marine and land parts.

8. (8)

   ‘climate’ means the statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period of time ranging from months to thousands or millions of years. These quantities are most often surface variables such as temperature, precipitation and wind.