1. Establish a maritime spatial planning, respecting the principles of integrated management and sustainable development.

2. Promote the sustainable, rational and efficient economic exploitation of the sea and marine resources and ecosystem services, ensuring the compatibility and sustainability of the various uses and activities developed therein, taking into account the inter and intra-generational responsibility in the use of the national maritime space and aiming at job creation.

3. Ensure the preservation, protection and recovery of natural values, biodiversity and coastal and marine ecosystems and the maintenance of the good environmental status of the marine environment, as well as the prevention of risks and the minimization of the effects resulting from natural disasters and climate change or of human action.

4. To guarantee legal security and transparency in the procedures for granting titles for the private use of maritime space, and to allow the exercise of information and participation rights.