Protocol on integrated coastal zone management of the Barcelona Convention
The European Commission has adopted a proposal for the signature of
the Protocol on integrated coastal zone management in the frrame of
the Barcelona Convention which will be conveyed to European
Council. Once approved in the Council, the proposal should allow
the Commission to sign this Protocol as a representative of EU.
Protocol was first created after the fourteenth COP meeting in
Portroz (Slovenia) in 2005, approved in Almeria (Spain) by
fifteenth COP meeting in January 2008, and adopted in Madrid
Plenipotentiaries Conference in the same year.
The new Protocol which accomplishes the legal instruments of the
Barcelona Convention, supports a series of measures aimed to
protect the mediterranean coastal zones and recommends a series of
directions to regulate the Environmental Impact Analysis,
protection and sustainable management of coastal zones, marine
ecosystems, coastal and insular ladscapes, economical activities,
cultural heritage and climatic change governance.
Protocol will be open to Parties signatures from adoption date till
January 21, 2009, will come in force thirty days after the deposit
of at least six instruments of ratification, acceptance or
approval.
Madrid
Plenipotentiaries Conference Final Act