The CMS and Ramsar Secretariats ("the Secretariats") will seek to achieve mutual compatibility in the policy content of the documents they prepare for major technical and decision-making meetings, such as their respective Conferences of Parties and meetings of subsidiary bodies.
CEP was established in 1981 as part of the Regional Seas Programme in recognition of the importance and value of the Wider Caribbean Region’s fragile and vulnerable coastal and marine ecosystems including endemic plants and animals.