European Maritime Transport Environmental Report 2021

Indeed, safeguarding the health and the challenges and the opportunities facing the shipping wellbeing of citizens and the environment is a key prerogative sector, which are of relevance to fostering cooperation at and objective of the EU, underscored by the European Green European level. [...] Barcelona Convention Bonn Agreement Since 1975, Mediterranean countries and the EU have been working together to protect the Mediterranean Sea under The OSPAR Convention, the regional sea convention for the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Marine the North-East Atlantic, shares a Secretariat with the Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean. [...] the protection of the marine environment and coastal zones, In 2019 the Bonn Secretariat agreed to the accession the elimination of pollution from land and sea sources, and of Spain and to extend the scope of application of the the protection of the natural and cultural heritage. [...] Furthermore, under the auspices of the Mediterranean Acton Plan, in 2013 the Contracting Parties The Helsinki Convention on the Protection of the Marine also adopted a regional plan for the marine litter management Environment of the Baltic Sea Area was signed in 1974 and in the Mediterranean, consisting of six specific actions for updated in 1992. [...] The development and use of alternative fuels Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP) and appropriate infrastructure in the European territory are essential to meet the requirements of the Sulphur The LRTAP Convention is one of the key means for Directive and to reduce the dependence of transport on oil protecting the environment (LRTAP Convention, (EU, 2014a).