CISE Seminar

The Commission Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE), assisted by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), is organising the high-level Event that will take place in Brussels on 17 October 2024.

The Common Information Sharing Environment for the maritime domain (CISE) is an EU initiative which aims to make EU Member States surveillance systems interoperable to give all relevant authorities from different sectors access to additional classified and unclassified information they need to conduct their missions at sea. The development of CISE remains a key EU policy deliverable for the EU maritime security, as highlighted again in the revised EU Maritime Security Strategy and Action Plan, approved by the Council in October 2023.

Member State authorities carry out many different operational surveillance tasks, in various fields such as maritime safety, security and prevention of pollution by ships, fisheries control, marine pollution preparedness and response, marine environment, customs, border control, general law enforcement and defence. By facilitating a rapid and secure access to additional added-value and critical information, CISE will enhance maritime domain awareness and effectiveness as well as cost-efficiency of maritime surveillance activities, critical in a moment of changing and growing challenges at sea.

Thanks to the joined work of Member States and the Commission, assisted by EMSA, all the building blocks of CISE have been established during the transitional phase (2019-2024) and the operational phase started on 1st July 2024. CISE counts today 15 nodes connecting more than 30 maritime authorities from Member States as well as EU Agencies. The “CISE-Alert project”, funded by the EU, has contributed to the development of CISE and its results are very relevant for the operational phase.