The EuroMarine Association, registered in France on 30 July 2018, is the not-for-profit legal entity prescribed by the EuroMarine Consortium Agreement, within the mixed legal framework chosen for the EuroMarine network under the preparatory FP7 EuroMarine project. It is placed under the control of the Consortium. From 2019 onwards, it manages the EuroMarine budget (notably collecting and redistributing the annual membership fees of the members of the Consortium).