EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BARCELONA CONVENTION HELPS ASPIRING EU MEMBERS ALIGN WITH ACCESSION REQUIREMENTS
The UNEP/MAP Barcelona Convention Secretariat participated in the Online Sub-Regional Workshop titled “Assistance for the implementation of the Barcelona Convention” that the Technical Assistance and Information Exchange Instrument of the European Commission (TAIEX) organized online on 16-17 February 2021.
The workshop took place in the context of the project titled “EU Environment Partnership Programme for Accession (EPPA) in the Western Balkans and Turkey”. Representatives of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Turkey tackled challenges and capacity gaps hindering the effective implementation of the Barcelona Convention and three of its seven protocols, namely the Land-Based Sources Protocol, the Specially Protected Areas and Biological Diversity Protocol, and the ICZM Protocol.