Next Focal Points Meeting of REMPEC in Malta
The Sixteenth Meeting of the Focal Points of REMPEC, the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea, will be held in Sliema, Malta from the 13 to 15 May 2025.
The Meeting will provide an opportunity to examine the implementation of REMPEC’s activities and deliverables since the last Meeting of the Focal Points.
The principle aims of the Meeting are to examine the implementation of the POW, the Programme of Work of REMPEC since the Fifteenth Meeting Focal Points (Malta, 13-15 June 2023), and to discuss and agree upon the proposed PoW of REMPEC for the biennium 2026-2027, prior to its submission for approval by the next Meeting of the UNEP/MAP Focal Points, which will be held next September in Athens.
This will also be submitted for adoption at the Twenty-Fourth Ordinary Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention and its Protocols (COP24, Egypt, 2-5 December 2025).
The National Focal Points of REMPEC whose responsibilities are defined by Decision IG 17/5 of the said Contracting Parties, are to be the main points of contact between REMPEC and the organizations or governments they belong to.
They are nominated by each Contracting Party to the Barcelona Convention to coordinate the activities mandated to the Centre.