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2009/05/18Welcome to the Ballast Water Opportunity project
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Ballast Water Opportunity is a project for regional cohesion, innovation and future strategies in ballast water policies and ballast water management, focusing on:

Coherence and harmonisation for implementation, monitoring and enforcement Innovation based on scientific knowledge for implementation, enforcement and development Development of future strategies to reduce ship-borne bio invasions

The project is co-funded by the INTERREG IVB North SeaRegion Programme of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and is coordinated by the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), an institute with long-standing expertise and scientific background knowledge in
testing of ballast water management systems.

Since the beginning NIOZ has cooperated with the German Bundesamt f�r Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH), responsible for ballast water policies in Germany.
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1st Annual Meeting, 29-30/01/2010, Malmo, Sweden. see: Calendar

2009/05/18Organisation of web site
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Organisation of the web site

The web site of the Ballast Water Opportunity project consists of three separate web environments:

A. Public part � access open to everybody. This page is the home page

B. Restricted environment � access to project partners and selected invited experts.
Access on user name and password.

C. Users environment � access to members of different user/interest groups.
Access on name, affiliation and represented interest + return confirmation

2009/05/18Why
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Rationale for a regional ballast water mangement framework
Surging evidence had shown that ballast water discharged from global shipping lay at cause of risks to human health the environment and amenities due transfer of epidemics by alien pathogens and other organisms. Epidemics and economic losses causes such stimulated the international community to act by developing measures to minimise transfer of harmful organisms by ballast water from ships.
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2009/05/18Contact
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info@NorthSeaBallast.eu
Dr M. Veldhuis
Dr C.C. ten Hallers-Tjabbes

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