Portraying CISE participants and access rights Current situation and best options Functions/ Current user access rights and Identification of barriers Best CISE options on portraying CISE User Communities responsibility to share participants and access rights Legal (L), technical (T) and cultural (C) (Remarks/comments and overall (Legal basis for data exchange, categorisation of conducive environment for planned legal activities, actors (if data sharing - A (low) , B (medium) or C A. General B. C. Administrative D. Legislative specified) and geographic/regional (high) nature Specific burdens (reporting complexity coverage) nature implications) (simplification) United Nations The purpose of the convention is A: Art. 180 limits the scope of information sharing by exempting The convention covers almost all legal Convention on the to contribute to the maintenance any information related to proprietary data, industrial secrets or aspects relevant to the exploitation of the Law of the Sea of peace, justice and progress for similar from the scope of the convention. Sea in relation to e.g. fishing, transportation (UNCLOS) all peoples of the world. This or access to natural resources. The should be done, in a spirit of convention is not very specific in terms of mutual understanding and information sharing and especially the access cooperation. to the information. Many of the provisions and principles of the convention are Several Arts in the convention implemented in EU legislation either directly govern coastal states' or indirectly. As regards the information responsibility to share information sharing it is often more specified in the EU and also to a limited extend the legislation. access right to the information. B (medium) The Arts governing information related to the scope of the convention implements the overall principle of the convention as mentioned above. However the
Functions/ User Communities Portraying CISE participants and access rights Current situation and best options Current user access rights and responsibility to share (Legal basis for data exchange, planned legal activities, actors (if specified) and geographic/regional coverage) Identification of barriers Legal (L), technical (T) and cultural (C) Best CISE options on portraying CISE participants and access rights (Remarks/comments and overall categorisation of conducive environment for data sharing - A (low) , B (medium) or C (high) A. General nature B. Specific nature C. Administrative burdens (reporting implications) D. Legislative complexity (simplification) United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) The purpose of the convention is to contribute to the maintenance of peace, justice and progress for all peoples of the world. This should be done, in a spirit of mutual understanding and cooperation. Several Arts in the convention govern coastal states' responsibility to share information and also to a limited extend the access right to the information. The Arts governing information related to the scope of the convention implements the overall principle of the convention as mentioned above. However the A: Art. 180 limits the scope of information sharing by exempting any information related to proprietary data, industrial secrets or similar from the scope of the convention. The convention covers almost all legal aspects relevant to the exploitation of the Sea in relation to e.g. fishing, transportation or access to natural resources. The convention is not very specific in terms of information sharing and especially the access to the information. Many of the provisions and principles of the convention are implemented in EU legislation either directly or indirectly. As regards the information sharing it is often more specified in the EU legislation. B (medium)