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International actors and agreements in the region

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Convention of the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes • UN ECE. ••>

UN Economic Commission for Europe. ••>

UNEP Regional Office for Europe. ••>

UNEP Regional Seas Programme. ••>

UNEP Global programme of action for the protection of the marine environment from land-based activities (UNEP GPA).

Regional conventions, agreements, action plans, projects, and actors

Convention on the Protection of the Black Sea against Pollution (Bucharest Convention) • Black Sea Commission. ••>

Ministerial Declarations on the Protection of the Black Sea: 1993 Odessa Declaration, and 2002 Sofia Declaration. ••>

Black Sea Environmental Programme (BSEP) • Strategic Action Plan for the Rehabilitation and Protection of the Black Sea • Black Sea TDA • Black Sea Ecosystems Recovery Project (and DABLAS Task Force). ••>

Danube River Protection Convention. ••>

Dnipro Basin Environment Programme. ••>

Organisation on Black Sea Economic Co-operation. ••>

Regional reports on the state of the marine and coastal environment

Black Sea Environmental Programme: Black Sea Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis

Black Sea Commission: State of the Environment of the Black Sea - pressures and trends 1996-2000. "The scope of the problem and an assessment of the impact of litter on marine life were never studied, although required under the Bucharest Convention"

Assessment of the state of the environment of the Black Sea. Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA).

EEA: State of the environment reporting system (SERIS) Black Sea. See also country reports for Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Turkey, and Ukraine.

UNEP GPA: Black Sea Region (brief description of environmental state and priority issues).

UNEP: Global Environment Outlook 3 (GEO3). Coastal and marine areas.

University of Rhode Island: Large Marine Ecosystems (LME): Black Sea LME.

Cetacean Habitat Loss and Degradation in the Black Sea (see p. 9 about marine litter). Report published by ACCOBAMS (Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans In the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic area).

Private sector and NGOs actors and initiatives

UNEP and Clean up Australia: Clean up the World! ••>

Black Sea NGO Network. ••>

Blackseaweb. A joint project between local partners from Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Romania, and EU partners, focusing on strengthening environmental management for the Black Sea Region. See, e.g., a summary of Environmental Programmes in the Black Sea



Litter on the shores of the Black Sea.

Photo: © Courtesy of Blackseaweb.


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