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PROTOCOL CONCERNING MEDITERRANEAN SPECIALLY PROTECTED AREAS
Objective
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To protect and improve the state of the natural resources and
natural sites of the Mediterranean Sea.
Summary of provisions
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Parties shall:
(a) Establish, maintain and restore protected areas (arts. 3
and 4), including buffer areas in which activities are less severely
restricted (art. 5);
(b) Take the measures required to protect specified areas,
such as the prohibition of the dumping or discharge of wastes (art.
7 (b)), the regulation of any act likely to harm or disturb the
fauna or flora (art. 7 (f)) or the regulation of trade in and import
and export of animals which originate in protected areas and are
subject to measures of protection (art. 7 (j));
(c) Give appropriate publicity to the establishment and
significance of the protected areas (arts. 8 and 11);
(d) Establish and develop scientific and technical research
on protected areas and their ecosystems and archeological heritage
(art. 10);
(e) Cooperate in establishing and managing protected areas
(arts. 6, 12, 13 and 15);
(f) Convene ordinary and extraordinary meetings to review the
implementation of the Protocol and the efficacy of the measures
adopted (art. 17).
Membership
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Open to any Contracting Party to the Convention for the
Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution, any State
invited to the Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Protocol
Concerning Mediterranean Specially Protected Areas and any regional
economic grouping of which at least one member is a coastal State of
the Mediterranean Sea area and which exercises competence in fields
covered by this Protocol. Instruments of ratification, acceptance
or approval to be deposited with the Government of Spain.
Date of adoption 3. 4.1982
Place of adoption Geneva, Switzerland
Date of entry into force 23.3.1986
Languages Arabic, English,
French, Spanish
Depositary Spain
Participant Signature Ratification Entry into
Approval (Ap) force
Accession (Ac)
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Albania 30. 5.1990 (Ac) 29. 6.1990
Algeria 16. 5.1985 (Ac) 23. 3.1986
Cyprus 28. 6.1988 (Ac) 28. 7.1988
Egypt 16. 2.1983 8. 7.1983 (Ac) 23. 3.1986
France 3. 4.1982 2. 9.1986 (Ap) 2.10.1986
Greece 3. 4.1982 26. 1.1987 25. 2.1987
Israel 3. 4.1982 28.10.1987 27. 7.1987
Italy 3. 4.1982 4. 7.1985 23. 3.1986
Libyan Arab
Jamahiriya 6. 6.1989 (Ac) 6. 7.1989
Malta 3. 4.1982 11. 1.1988 10. 2.1988
Monaco 3. 4.1982 29. 5.1989 28. 6.1989
Morocco 3. 4.1983 3. 4.1990 23. 3.1986
Spain 3. 4.1983 22.12.1987 21. 1.1988
Tunisia* 3. 4.1982 26. 5.1983 23. 3.1986
Turkey 6.11.1986 (Ac) 6.12.1986
Yugoslavia 30. 3.1983 21. 2.1986 23. 3.1986
European
Economic
Community 30. 3.1983 30. 6.1984 (Ap) 23. 3.1986
* With a reservation.
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