The development of "sustainable" surveillance and monitoring activity carried out by the Coast guard for the safeguard of the Protected Marine Areas Santo Altavilla Italian Coast Guard, Italy Maura Pisconti Italian Coast Guard, Italy Federica Galeano Italian Coast Guard, Italy Silvia Aquaro Italian Coast Guard, Italy Fabio Tiralongo Italian Coast Guard, Italy Giuseppina Corrente Directorate General for the Sea and Coast Ministry of Ecological Transition, Italy Emiliano Santocchini Italian Coast Guard, Italy Daniele Giannelli Italian Coast Guard, Italy Aurelio Caligiore Italian Coast Guard, Italy This is a section of Ninth International Symposium “Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques”(DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0030-1) by Laura Bonora, Donatella Carboni, Matteo De Vincenzi, Giorgio Matteucci Firenze University Press Firenze 2022 https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0030-1.10

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The Italian Coast Guard is responsible of surveillance of the Marine Protected Areas and also fulfills essential maritime environmental police tasks in order to protect the maritime and coastal environment. Over the years, specific environmental maritime police campaigns and joint operations have been carried out with the aim of combining the protection of the maritime environment, the safeguard of coasts and biological resources, which are closely connected with each other, through the use of the assets and ITCG specialized units able to discover, analyze and repress environmental offences.

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