Marine spatial planning is an important tool to achieve a more ecosystem-based governance approach to marine ecosystems. Marine ecosystems often transcend national jurisdictional boundaries, so the compatibility of national policies and legal structures are important prerequisites for transboundary marine spatial planning. This article explores marine spatial planning in the North Sea ecosystem and analyses whether national policies and legal structures in the Netherlands and Norway are compatible enough. Both countries have an extensive body of law regulating the different uses of the North Sea and have also developed integrated management approaches for ‘their’ respective parts of the North Sea. The article demonstrates that marine spatial planning in regional sea areas is complicated when national legal frameworks and governance structures and traditions are very different.

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北海海洋空间规划——国家政策和法律结构是否足够兼容？挪威和荷兰的案例

海洋空间规划是实现更基于生态系统的海洋生态系统治理方法的重要工具。海洋生态系统往往超越国家管辖范围，因此国家政策和法律结构的兼容性是跨界海洋空间规划的重要前提。本文探讨了北海生态系统中的海洋空间规划，并分析了荷兰和挪威的国家政策和法律结构是否足够兼容。两国都制定了广泛的法律体系来规范北海的不同用途，并且还制定了针对北海“各自”部分的综合管理方法。