The SEArica Intergroup Launch Conference (2025-2029)

Shaping an ambitious EU Oceans Pact together 

The SEArica Intergroup Launch Conference (2025-2029) 

Hosted by MEP Christophe Clergeau, Chair of the SEArica Intergroup  

Organised with the support of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions  

Wednesday 05 February, 18:00-20:00 

European Parliament, Spinelli 3G2, Brussels  

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Healthy seas and oceans are critical to maintaining the environmental and climate cycles that sustain our planet, while also playing a central role in Europe’s socio-economic model. Yet today, the growing cumulative impacts of human activities and the vital importance of the EU’s oceans in addressing key future challenges for Europe demand a cohesive approach to ensure a balance between sustainable opportunities and environmental preservation and restauration. 

The challenges facing our oceans are complex, interconnected, and escalating, requiring an adapted response at EU level. The European Oceans Pact, first announced by President Ursula von der Leyen in her political guidelines 2024-2029, could serve as a transformative opportunity to build the next generation of EU policies affecting oceans.  

In this context, the SEArica Members of the European Parliament invite you to the inaugural event of the SEArica Intergroup 2024-2029 to lay the groundwork for shaping, together, an ambitious EU Oceans Pact.