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EUROPE COMMISSIONER FOR RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND SCIENCE; CANADA DEPUTY MINISTER OF FISHERIES AND OCEANS; AND U.S. HEAD OF NATIONAL OCEA</p>
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<h1 align="left" style="line-height: 1.3em; color: #095494; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">EUROPE COMMISSIONER FOR RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND SCIENCE; CANADA DEPUTY MINISTER OF FISHERIES AND OCEANS; AND U.S. HEAD OF NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE TO OPEN WOC BUSINESS FORUM</h1>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 1.5em; color: #3F4449; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">High-Level Panel To Address How Ocean Policy and Marine Planning Can Support the Blue Economy, Innovation and Business Opportunities Across the Atlantic</strong></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 1.5em; color: #3F4449; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">8 September 2014</p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 1.5em; color: #3F4449; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">The panel “Collaboration in Science-Based Ocean Policy and Marine Planning” will take place on Monday, 29 September 2014, 8:30am – 9:30am</strong> at the WOC Business Forum on Ocean Policy and Planning (New York, 28-30 Sept, 2014).
<br><em style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;"><a target="_blank" style="color: #095494; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;" href="https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1410228437-6d5b09f30a08000b23c18a22ade1664f-0068647?pa=24943020610">Click here to register for the Business Forum and to see the program</a>.</em></p></div></td></tr></table></div><div class="module text" style="clear: both; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><table width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-width: 0; border-right-width: 0; border-bottom-width: 0; border-left-width: 0;"><tr><td width="530" align="left" style="clear: both; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><div class="madmimi-text-container" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><p align="left" style="line-height: 1.5em; color: #3F4449; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;">Confirmed High Level Speakers:</strong></p>
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