DECISION OF THE MEETING - Nineteenth Ordinary Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean and its Protocols; Implementation of Updated National Action Plans (NAPs), Containing Measures and Timetables for their Implementation

Endorse the NAPs 2016 – 2025, as unique policy documents comprising legally binding programmes of measures and timetables required to achieve GES and the Regional Plans/LBS Protocol objectives in the framework of SAP-MED; Urge the Contracting Parties to implement them and report on their implementation, and request the Secretariat (MED POL) to undertake in 2020 an indicator-based mid-term evaluation of the NAPs implementation for submission to COP 21.