DECISION OF THE MEETING - Sixteenth 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; Regional strategy on ships’ ballast water management in the Mediterranean

Decide to develop a regional strategy on ships’ ballast water management in the Mediterranean within the Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP); Encourage the Mediterranean GloBallast Regional Task Force to endeavor to finalise such regional strategy as soon as possible, for possible adoption by the COP17; Recommend the establishment and maintenance of dialogue with other regional seas agreements.