MAP was established in 1975 as a multilateral environmental agreement in the context of the Regional Seas Programme of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Mediterranean countries and the European Community approved MAP as the institutional framework for cooperation in addressing common challenges of marine environmental degradation.
Party States: Albania, Algeria, Cyprus, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Montenegro, Monaco, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey
Below is a list of key action plans associated with the Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP)
- Mediterranean Offshore Protocol Action Plan
- National Action Plans to reduce pollution for 2016-2025
- Plan on reduction of input of BOD by 50% by 2010 from industrial sources for the Mediterranean region
- Plan for the reduction by 20% by 2010 of the generation of hazardous wastes from industrial installations for the Mediterranean region
- Plan for the management of hazardous waste, including inventory of hazardous waste in the Mediterranean region
- Plan for the management PCBs waste and nine pesticides for the Mediterranean Region
- Regional Working Programme for the Coastal and Marine Protected Areas in the Mediterranean Sea including the High Sea
- Action Plan for the conservation of Cartilaginous Fish (Chondricthyans) in the Mediterranean
- Action Plan for the conservation of marine vegetation in the Mediterranean Sea for the period 2012-2017
- Action Plan for the conservation of Mediterranean Marine Turtles in the Mediterranean Sea for the period 2014-2019
- Action Plan for the conservation of Bird species listed in Annex II to the SPA/BD Protocol in the Mediterranean for the period 2014-2019
- Action Plan for the conservation of Habitats and Species associated with seamounts, underwater caves and canyons, aphotic engineering benthic invertebrates and chemo-synthetic phenomena, in the Mediterranean Sea
- Roadmap towards a comprehensive, ecologically representative, effectively connected and efficiently managed network of Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas by 2020
- Action Plan for the implementation of the ICZM Protocol 2012-2019
- Regional Climate Change Adaptation Framework for the Mediterranean Marine and Coastal Areas
- Regional Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
- The Action Plan for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment and Coastal Areas (1980)
- The Protocol Concerning Co-operation in Combating Pollution in Cases of Emergency