Eighth Meeting of the Focal Points of the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC)

    • When May 07, 2007 09:00 AM to May 11, 2007 05:15 PM
    • Where Malta
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    The Eighth Meeting of the Focal Points of the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC) was convened in Attard, Malta from the 7 to 11 May 2007, pursuant to the decision of the Fourteenth Ordinary Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention which agreed that a Meeting of REMPEC's Focal Points be organized during 2006/2007 (UNEP (DEPI)/MED IG.16/13, Portoroz, Slovenia, 8 – 11 November 2005).

    The principal objectives of the Eighth Meeting of REMPEC Focal Points were: (a) to examine the implementation of the programme of activities of REMPEC since the Seventh Focal Points Meeting; and (b) to discuss and propose the programme of priority activities of REMPEC for the biennium 2008-2009.

    All REMPEC official Governmental Focal Points were invited to participate in the Meeting and in view of the fact that the Meeting was expected to endorse draft texts and take position on policy issues that will be reported to the next Ordinary Meeting of the Contracting Parties for possible adoption in December 2007, national focal points were invited to nominate jointly and in consultation with all national authorities concerned their representatives in the Meeting. Contracting Parties were also invited to include in their delegations observers representing their respective oil, chemical, port and shipping industries.  The invitation to attend the Meeting was also extended to the specialized agencies of the United Nations, other governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as to the international professional organizations and associations whose activities are relevant for the work of REMPEC.

    The Meeting was attended by delegations from the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention; by an observer delegation from Montenegro; by representatives from United Nations Organizations; from the International Organization – IOPC Funds; by representatives from Regional Activity Centre (RAC) of the MAP; by representatives from the MAP partners/non-governmental organizations; and by representatives from other organizations.

    The documents of the Meeting can be downloaded from the following list:

    WG.28/3/1 Provisional agenda.
    WG.28/3/2 Annotated provisional agenda.
    WG.28/3/3 Draft timetable and agenda.
    WG.28/4 Progress report on REMPEC's activities since 7th meeting of REMPEC's focal points.
    WG.28/5 Implementation of the SAFEMED Project.
    WG.28/6 Draft Guidelines on the decision making process for granting access to a place of refuge for ships in need of assistance.
    WG.28/6/Rev.1 Draft Guidelines on the decision making process for granting access to a place of refuge for ships in need of assistance.
    WG.28/7 Draft Guidelines concerning pleasure craft activities and the protection of the marine environment in the Mediterranean.
    WG.28/8/1 Developments in the field of port reception facilities.
    WG.28/8/2 IMO's Port Reception Facility Database (PRFD).
    WG.28/9/1 Accidents in the Mediterranean.
    WG.28/9/2 REMPEC's involvement in the marine pollution incident in the eastern Mediterranean during the summer of 2006.
    WG.28/9/3 Lessons learnt from the marine pollution incident in the eastern Mediterranean during the summer of 2006.
    WG.28/9/4 Mediterranean Technical Working Group (MTWG).
    WG.28/9/5 Mediterranean Assistance Unit (MAU).
    WG.28/9/6 Developments in oil spill response capacity at sea in the Mediterranean.
    WG.28/10 Dissemination of information.
    WG.28/11 Proposed programme of activities for the biennium 2008-2009.
    WG.28/12 Project on Regional - AIS (Automatic Identification System).
    WG.28/13 Report of the meeting.