PEGASEAS and the cross-Channel forums highlighted contrasting visions for Channel management between European and regional political bodies and the French and British states. Regional authorities have developed an extraordinarily enthusiastic cooperation between both sides of the Channel during the past ten years, as evidenced in the degree of trans-boundary cooperation through the INTERREG IVA projects; however, the actual approach of France and the United Kingdom is to further scientific research and to propose future political actions, including targets and indicators of Good Environmental Status, independently. So today, concurrently, we have two separate national visions of the Channel as well as a desire to manage the Channel as one unique space.