Flered Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Mediterranean Sea Area (Pacifica)
The Flered Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Mediterranean Sea Area or the Flered Convention is a treaty whose goal is to provide binding measures for the protection of the marine environment of the Mediterranean Sea that all nations within the Mediterranean drainage basin are invited to join. The convention was signed in Flered, Sedunn, in 1977 and went into effect in 1980
The convention also established the Mediterranean Marine Environment Protection Commission (MMEPC) which is responsible for oversseing the implementation of the convention, making recommendations to the signatories, defining pollution control criteria and objectives and promoting additional measures in co-operation with respective governmental bodies of the signatories. The Commission is based in Flered.
External links
- Official website of the MMEPC
- Charter of the Flered Convention