RELEVANCE OF THE PLANCOAST “STATE OF ART OF COASTAL AND MARITIME PLANNING IN THE ADRIATIC REGION” FOR ROMANIA

The new issue Integrated Maritime Spatial Planning (IMSP) supported by the European Union since the 2007 Blue Book on Maritime Policy combines principles of the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) with needs for sustainable development, elaborating different tools and procedures for spatial planning on both coastal and marine sides. As “The Romanian Emergency Ordinance on ICZM No. 202/2002” puts Romania ahead of Baltic and Adriatic countries in terms of a legal framework for integrated planning of the terrestrial coastal zone. The Romanian Coast is under the pressure from increasing population density, urbanization, marine transport, coastal erosion, pollution. Tourism industry and unplanned urbanization have had negative effects by depreciation of the natural landscape, water quality, sandy dunes, vegetation and marine ecosystem. This paper aim is to show how could be open and develop in Romania the field of IMSP: developing, introducing and implementing the new field of spatial planning in maritime areas (sea use planning) in the coastal zone in a coherent manner; strengthening the implementation of the ICZM in Romanian coastal zone demonstrating the benefits of spatial planning to ICZM by a selected number of pilot projects; introduction international comparable GIS databases facilitating the spatial planning process according to ICZM principle.