Background
Documents
Rationale
Towards an Improved Governance in the Mediterranean Beyond Territorial Sea
15-16 March 2004
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Agreement on the
Delimitation of the Maritime Boundaries
in the Area of the Strait of Bonifacio,
28 November 1986. (France-Italy)
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IUCN Mediterranean
Marine Law Specialist Group (MMLSG) Brochure
UICN Network of cooperation to address
legal marine issues in the Mediterranean
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Convention on Biological
Diversity Decision UNEP/CBD/COP/71L.31(2004)
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Declaration of
the Ministerial Conference For the sustainable
development of Fisheries in the Mediterranean
(Venice
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Decision on the
Extension of the Jurisdiction of the
Republic of Croatia in the Adriatic Sea
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IUCN International
Ocean Governance
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IUCN WWF WCPA Ten-year
high seas marine protected Area strategy:
A ten-year Strategy to Promote the Development
of a Global Representative System of
High Seas Marine Protected Area Networks
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Terms of Reference
of Specialist Group for Ocean Law and
Governance (2003)
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Report on the work
of the UNICPOLOS. Letter dated 9 June
2003 from the Co-Chairpersons of the
Consultative Process Addressed to the
President of the General Assembly
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United Nations
Secretary-General report for UNICPOLOS
2004
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Marine Protected
Areas on the High Seas:
| Some
Legal and Policy Considerations, Tullio Scovazzi |
Víctor
Manteca Valdelande Ministerio
de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación
| Regulación
de Espacios Marinos en el Mediterráneo y Propuesta para una Política
Común Pesquera Mediterránea |
Kristian Turkalj Mission
of the Republic of Croatia to the European
Union, Belgium
How to Improve Marine Resources Conservation and Management in the Mediterranean?
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General
Info
Links to relevant legal instruments
in the Mediterranean:
International
Convention for the Control and
Management of Ships’ Ballast
Water and Sediments, 2004
Pertaining
to international cooperation
Pertaining to combating unsustainable
fisheries:
Pertaining to the protection of
cetaceans:
Pertaining to Marine protected
areas including the High seas:
- Protocol Concerning Mediterranean
Specially Protected Areas (SPA
Protocol); adopted in 1982,
in force in 1986, revised in
1995 as the Protocol Concerning
Specially Protected Areas and
Biological Diversity in the
Mediterranean (SPA and Biodiversity
Protocol).
- UN
Convention on the Law of
the Sea (in
force in 1994)
Pertaining
to prevention of marine pollution
and emergency cases
- Protocol Concerning Cooperation
in Combating Pollution of the
Mediterranean Sea by Oil and
other Harmful Substances in
Cases of Emergency adopted
in 1976, in force in 1978.
A new text - Protocol
Concerning Cooperation in Preventing
Pollution from Ships and in
Case of Emergency Combating
Pollution of the Mediterranean
Sea, was signed in January
2002 and entered into force
in March 2004.
- MARPOL
- Pertaining to dumping activities:
- Pertaining to pollution resulting
from exploration and exploitation
of the continental shelf and the
seabed and its subsoil
- The Protocol for the Protection
of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution
Resulting from Exploration and Exploitation
of the Continental Shelf and the Seabed
and its Subsoil (Offshore
Protocol); adopted in 1994.
- Pertaining to prevention of pollution
by transboundary movements of hazardous
wastes and their disposal
- Protocol on the Prevention of Pollution
of the Mediterranean Sea by Transboundary
Movements of Hazardous Wastes and
their Disposal (Hazardous
Wastes Protocol); adopted in 1996
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