Initiative of the EU commission in order to develop the Economy Blue



the EU commission has adopted a communication on the "Blue Increase" with the objective to pick the opportunities of offered sustainable increase and occupation from the marine and marine field. If the section today appoints to a job 5,4 million people and represents a gross added value of about 500 billion euros - it has found Brussels - within the 2020 such figures could go up to seven million and 600 billion.

In order to realize this potential one, safeguarding meanwhile the conservation of the biodiversity and the protection of the atmosphere - it has explained the Commission - it is necessary to remove the obstacles to the increase and to adopt intelligent solutions in order to stimulate the development, encouraging therefore the marine search and the innovation, supporting PMI innovative, facing the issue of the requirements of competences and encouraging the definition of producing and innovative solutions. Traditional fields as that of the marine transport and marine and coastal tourism - it has found Brussels - can earn in competitiveness; moreover fields in strong expansion and emerged fields which the marine renewable energies and biotechnologies can become an indispensable instrument in order to create more places of work, to generate more clean energy and to create new producing and services.

The communication characterizes five specific areas with a particularly interesting growth potential in which a aimed action it could give ulterior overhong: marine, coastal and crocieristico tourism; blue energy; marine mining resources; aquaculture; blue biotechnology. The EU commission has announced that shortly, in consultation with the Member States and the parts interested, will start a series of initiatives in order to explore and to develop the growth potential in these fields.

"All the fields of the economy of Europe - it has observed the European commissioner to the marine Transactions and the peach, Maria Damanaki - are essential in order to allow us to exit from this period of difficulty. The "Economy Blue" offers opportunity of sustainable economic increase, is in the fields marine and marine traditional it is in those emerged. Innovation, entrepreneurships and dynamism characterize these fields of the European economy. The idea of the blue increase is that to guarantee that all - institutions and Member States, E regions PMI - work in order to exceed the existing obstacles to the aim to guarantee use it more productive and sustainable possible of the resources offered from our seas and our coasts".