On 5 and 6 June, the meeting of NOWPAP Regional Action Plan on Marine Litter (RAP MALI) was held in Busan. The Focal Points reviewed RAP MALI progress and proposed activities related to the Reginal Action Plan for the NOWPAP Regional Activity Centres (RACs) and Regional Coordinating Unit (RCU) in 2018-2019. The meeting agreed that the proposed NOWPAP Special Project on microplastics would use existing microplastics monitoring criteria in member states countries. Existing eco-toxicological studies of the impact of microplastics on the environment would be reviewed as a second component of the project. The meeting accepted with much appreciation, the invitation from Dalian City, People’s Republic of China to hold the 2019 RAP MALI Focal Points Meeting jointly with the 2019 NOWPAP-TEMM Marine Litter Management Workshop and the 2019 NOWPAP International Coastal Clean-up, tentatively in September 2019.
