Legal aspects of marine environmental data

This Study examines existing legal rights and restrictions relating to access to marine environmental data by analysing a representative sample of the data types that will be available through EMODNet, both at European Community (EC) level and pursuant to national legal systems.

A key objective of this Study is to determine how the relevant legal rules are applied in practice.

The Terms of Reference for this Study specify three separate tasks. These are headed:
1) Collection of information on access rights and restrictions on marine data
2) Analysis of general legal issues regarding access to data
3) Analysis of regulatory data provided to the Commission under the Common Fisheries Policy.