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Objectives of these guidelines:
A participatory process has been ad-
opted to develop these guidelines and a
working group of about a hundred actors
has been set up by Plan Bleu, bringing to-
gether representatives of the private sec-
tor, local, national, and regional authori- Finally, three online workshops were or-
ties, NGOs, researchers, and international
organizations working in the sector. Two
Interreg Med project communities, of
which Plan Bleu is part, are also partners in
this initiative: the Blue Growth Communi-
ty and the Mediterranean Community for
the Protection of Biodiversity. The road-
map development process is co-financed
by the Mediterranean Trust Fund, the Eu-
ropean Regional Development Fund and
the French Development Agency.
Stakeholders were
consulted in three
phases: April 2021:
A first survey developed a common vi-
sion of the sustainability of the cruise and
recreational boating sectors and identified
sustainability goals. Stakeholders were
also asked to assign each objective a score
of relevance and feasibility for each sector.
May 2021: a second survey gathered stake-
holder input on good practices in terms of
sustainability in each of the cruise, ports,
boating and marina sectors.
ganised to present the draft guidelines,
discuss the results of the surveys and gath-
er input from stakeholders to the global
document:
The first workshopon 23 November
2020 was an opportunity for the various
partners to address the main issues fore-
shadowing the development of the guide-
lines, including definitions of sustainability
in the cruise and port sectors.
On 25 May 2021, a workshop was orga-
nized specifically dedicated to the cruise
and port sectorsin order to specifically ad-
dress the challenges related to these two
sectors and to identify good practices.
On June 9, 2021, the third workshop
was dedicated to the recreational boating
and marina sectors, always with a view
to agreeing on the issues and identifying
good practices.
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