title: Dividing the common pond: regionalizing EU ocean governance.
abstract: EU ocean policies increasingly incorporate regional measures. Under the long standing Common Fisheries Policy, such measures aim at improving and reforming existing policy, either by taking into account region specific social or ecologic requirements or by establishing procedures and institutions to achieve a regional fit. By contrast, the EU's emerging integrated Marine Environmental Policy was designed to draw heavily on regional procedural and institutional mechanisms from the outset. The developing regional measures raise the question whether they contribute to improving institutional structures governing the use and conservation of EU waters. This article analyzes the existing and future regional measures of the two policies and their varying purposes and scopes. It develops a typology for categorizing the regional aspects and examines the effects of regional measures on EU institutions and the theoretical EU integration debate.
authors.affiliation: University of Applied Sciences Bremen, GLOMAR International Graduate School for Marine Sciences Bremen, Germany. ninamaier@ymail.com
authors.forename: Nina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Maier
authors.forename: Till
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Markus
mesh_terms: D001267:Atlantic Ocean; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods*; D058735:Environmental Policy; D005062:European Union; D005398:Fisheries / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods