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Who we work with

The creation of the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has represented an unprecedented opportunity to manage our seas in a sustainable and pragmatic way. It integrates the interests, responsibilities, aspirations and contributions of all those with a stake in the marine area.

We cannot do this alone and is dependent on a wide range of delivery partners and stakeholders. We are developing a comprehensive network of relationships to promote coherence, co-operation and communication across the whole marine area.

We are committed to developing and maintain effective working relations with these organisations – our delivery partners – to ensure a joined up approach supporting  a cost-effective, efficient, transparent and well informed management and regulation of our seas with exceptional customer service.

Building on the successes, corporate memory and best practice of predecessor bodies, we seek to deliver transparency, value for money and exceptional customer service.

Relationship development with key delivery partners

To be truly effective, we need to work closely with other organisations involved in the marine area. This includes other regulatory, delivery, enforcement and scientific organisations operating in the seas around England as well as governments, administrations and enforcement authorities in adjacent sea areas.

To support working relations with our key delivery partners, the MMO has established a series of overarching memorandums of understanding (MOUs) that cut across our different working areas. These overarching agreements provide us with a shared vision and a common reference for our relationship with each partner by outlining roles and responsibilities, as well as principles and working arrangements for collaboration across different working areas. Annexes have been developed for some of these MOUs, which provide further detail on joint delivery and collaboration within each work area.

Annual reviews of the MOUs help us monitor how well we are progressing on joint delivery areas and to set clear targets for what we look to achieve together during the coming year. The review ensures accountability and helps us explore opportunities for progressing and improving joint working relations and delivery.

So far MMO has developed MOUs for overarching working arrangements with:

The MMO also has a series of service level agreements (SLAs), MOUs, contracts or other agreements and working arrangements with these and a range of other delivery partners on specific work areas or joint projects.

If you have any questions or would like to find out more about MMO's partnership working please write to stakeholder@marinemanagement.org.uk

Marine science

We are a member of the Marine Science Co-ordination Committee, a partnership with the aim to make UK marine science more effective and efficient.

An online UK Marine Science Events Calendar was recently launched.