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Shared management of marine protected areas between France and Italy: a new study for the MOT

This study was entrusted to the MOT, in collaboration with the Italian firm Weigmann Studio Legale, represented by Professor Michele Vellano, following a call for tenders. Its aim is to remove the legal and institutional obstacles to the integrated management of these exceptional natural areas, located on both sides of borders.

Faced with growing pressures - from human activities, pollution and climate change - local players (CARF, SMIAGE Maralpin, Liguria Region, University of Genoa) and the Alpes-Maritimes Department, which manages the Roquebrune-Cap-Martin fishing reserve, have expressed a desire to take their collaboration on the management and preservation of these sites a step further. Their ambition is to build shared, sustainable governance capable of overcoming the differences in standards between the two countries.

The aim of the study is to establish a common assessment, propose a joint management strategy and design a permanent legal instrument to provide a framework for this cooperation. Among the options considered, the use of a European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) will be analysed, along with other models of governance, in order to determine the solution best suited to the local context.