Thematic strategies and action plans are devised with a view to underpinning the implementation of the Barcelona Convention and its Protocols.
Pollution
- Strategic Action Programme to Address Pollution from Land-based Activities (SAP MED) (1997)
- Ballast Water Management Strategy for the Mediterranean Sea (2022-2027) (Decision IG.25/17 – 2021)
- Mediterranean Strategy for the Prevention of, Preparedness, and Response to Marine Pollution from Ships (2022-2031) (Decision IG.25/16, 2021)
- Regional Strategy for Prevention of and Response to Marine Pollution from Ships (2016-2021) (Decision IG.22/4 - 2016).
- Mediterranean Offshore Protocol Action Plan (Decision IG. 22/3 - 2016)
- Regional Plan on reduction of input of BOD by 50% by 2010 from industrial sources for the Mediterranean region (2003)
- Strategic framework on marine litter management (Decision IG.20/10 - 2012)
- Regional Plan for the reduction by 20% by 2010 of the generation of hazardous wastes from industrial installations for the Mediterranean region (2003)
- Plan for the management of hazardous waste, including inventory of hazardous waste in the Mediterranean region (2003)
- Plan for the management of PCBs waste and nine pesticides for the Mediterranean Region (2003)
Specially Protected Areas and Biological Diversity Protocol
- Post-2020 Strategic Action Programme for the Conservation of Biodiversity and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources in the Mediterranean Region (Post-2020 SAPBIO) (Decision IG.25/11, 2021)
- Post-2020 Regional Strategy for marine and coastal protected areas and other effective area based conservation measures in the Mediterranean (Decision IG.25/12 (Annex I), 2021)
- Restoration Programme of Pinna nobilis (Decision IG.26/5 (Annex V) - 2023)
- Strategic Action Plan for the Conservation of Biological Diversity (SAP BIO) in the Mediterranean Region (2003)
- Mediterranean Strategy on Ships’ Ballast Water Management (BWM), including its Action Plan and Timetable as well as the “General Guidance on the Voluntary Application of the D1 Ballast Water Exchange Standard by Vessels Operating between the Mediterranean Sea and the North-East Atlantic and/or the Baltic Sea” (Decision IG.20/11 - 2012).
- Regional Working Programme for the Coastal and Marine Protected Areas in the Mediterranean Sea including the High Sea (Decision IG.19/13 - 2009)
- Roadmap for a comprehensive, coherent network of well managed network of Marine Protected Areas to Achieve Aichi Target 11 in the Mediterranean (Decision IG.22/13 -2016)
- Regional Strategy for the Conservation of Mediterranean Monk Seal (First adoption: Decision IG.21/4 - 2013; Last update: Decision IG.24/7 - 2019)
Integrated Coastal Zone Management Protocol
- Action Plan for the implementation of the ICZM Protocol 2012-2019 (Decision IG.20/2 -2012)
- Common Regional Framework for ICZM (Decision IG.24/5 - 2019)
- Conceptual Framework for Implementing Marine Spatial Planning in the Mediterranean (Decision IG.26/10, 2023)
Conceptual Framework for Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) (Decision IG. 23/7 - 2017)
Sustainable Consumption and Production
- Regional Action Plan on Sustainable Consumption and Production in the Mediterranean (Decision IG.22/5 - 2016)
Climate Change adaptation
- Regional Climate Change Adaptation Framework for the Mediterranean Marine and Coastal Areas (Decision IG.22/6 - 2016)
