Download or read book A Note on the European Union's Integrated Maritime Policy written by Timo Koivurova and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article examines the European Union's (EU's) recently adopted Integrated Maritime Policy (IMP) in three contexts. The first is that within which all national integrated ocean policies need to function; namely, international ocean governance and the law of the sea. The second is a comparison of the integrated ocean policies of the EU and large federal states; that is, political entities that most closely resemble the EU in functional terms. This article will focus on a comparison with Canada. Third, the article undertakes a cursory assessment of the prospects of the IMP.