MAP legal and policy documents

Overview of REMPEC’s legal framework as well as MAP and REMPEC’s governance system and access to reports of the Meetings of the Focal Points of REMPEC and of the Meetings of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention (COP).

Evolution of the Prevention and Emergency Protocol

Overview of the process of revision of the 1976 Protocol concerning Co-operation in Combating Pollution of the Mediterranean Sea by Oil and other Harmful Substances in Cases of Emergency (Emergency Protocol) leading to the adoption of the 2002, Protocol Concerning Cooperation in Preventing Pollution from Ships and, in Cases of Emergency, Combating Pollution of the Mediterranean Sea (Prevention and Emergency Protocol).

Offshore Protocol Meetings

Reports of Meetings for the preparation of the Mediterranean Offshore Action Plan in the framework of 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 ("the Offshore Protocol") and related adopted text.