Mediterranean and Black Seas

RAC/SPA, based in Tunis, as part of a host agreement signed in 1991 between Tunisia and UNEP, was established by the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention in order to help the Mediterranean countries to implement the Protocol on Specially Protected Areas and Biological Diversity in the Mediterranean (= SPA/BD Protocol, which came into force in December 1999). In compliance with the SPA/BD Protocol, RAC/SPA is responsible for carrying out the functions entrusted to it by the Parties, as well as the following functions:

• Helping the Parties, in cooperation with the competent international organisations, IGOs and NGOs, to set up and manage Specially Protected Areas, to successfully complete scientific and technical research programmes and the exchange of such information between the Parties, and to prepare educational material designed for various public;
• Making recommendations concerning guidelines and common criteria and preparing reports and technical studies that may be necessary for implementing the SPA/BD Protocol;
• Establishing and updating databases on Specially Protected Areas, protected species and other subjects that come under the SPA/BD Protocol;

Elaborating and implementing training programmes;
Successfully carrying out the functions entrusted to it by the Actions Plans adopted as part of the SPA/BD Protocol.

visit http://www.rac-spa.org/

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MedPAN is the network of managers of marine protected areas in the Mediterranean. This three-year project (2005 - 2007) is funded by the Interreg IIIC South. It brings together 23 partners from 11 countries around the shores of the Mediterranean, of which 14 partners are European (France Italy, Greece, Malta, Slovenia, Spain) and 9 partners from non-European countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Croatia, Turkey). These partners manage more than 20 marine protected areas and are working towards the creation of several new sites.

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