Legislation for: National Report on the technical implementation of the Dumping Protocol: Report on the disposal of wastes or other matter in terms of Articles 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9.

Legal instrument title

Barcelona Convention Article 26 of Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and Coastal Region of the Mediterranean

Participating countries/territories

Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey

General comments

The Protocol (to the Barcelona Convention) for the Prevention of Pollution of the Mediterranean Sea by Dumping from Ships and Aircraft was adopted on 16 February 1976 by the Conference of Plenipotentiaries of the Coastal States of the Mediterranean Region for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea, held in Barcelona. The Protocol entered into force on 12 February 1978. The amended Protocol, recorded as "Protocol for the Prevention and Elimination of Pollution of the Mediterranean Sea by Dumping from Ships and Aircraft or Incineration at Sea", has not yet entered into force.

Additional countries reporting formally:
Israel, Lebanon, Syria & the EC.