The European Marine Board and EuroGOOS are working together to promote and develop a new framework for advancing Europe’s capacity for ocean observation. The European Ocean Observing System (EOOS) is a coordinating framework designed to align and integrate Europe’s ocean observing capacity, promote a systematic and collaborative approach to collecting information on the state and variability of our seas, and underpin sustainable management of the marine environment and its resources. An open consultation was launched on 12 December 2016 to collect views of the European ocean observing community and wider stakeholders and will be critical to inform any decision-making about a future EOOS. The survey is based on the EOOS Consultation Document, which provides further information on what EOOS is and why there is a need for such a framework. Both the consultation document and the stakeholder consultation are available through the EOOS webpage. The survey is open until 20 January 2017. Have your say now on the future EOOS!