8:30 – 10:00 Registration of the participants
9:00 – 10:00 Informal meeting of Heads of Delegations
10:00 – 10:30
- Opening of the Meeting
- Ms. Fatma Varank, President of the Bureau of the Contracting Parties, Deputy Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change of Turkey;
- Ms. Maša Kociper, State Secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister of Slovenia;
- Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Deputy Executive Director of UNEP;
- Ms. Tatjana Hema, Coordinator, UNEP/MAP-Barcelona Convention.
- Organizational Matters
10:30 – 11:00 5.5. Portorož Ministerial Declaration
11:00 – 12:00 4. Program of Work and Budget 2024-2025
12:00 – 13:00 3. Thematic Decisions:
- IG.26/1(Compliance and Reporting)
- IG.26/2 (Governance)
- IG.26/3 (The 2023 Mediterranean Quality Status Report and a Renewed Ecosystem Approach Policy in the Mediterranean)
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break and Side Events: Pollution (including marine litter), Legal aspects, Best practices of cooperation
15:00 – 18:00 3. Thematic Decisions:
- IG.26/4 (Amendments to Annexes II and III to the Protocol concerning SPA and Biological Diversity)
- IG.26/5 (SPAs, SPAMIs and Ecosystem Restoration)
- IG.26/6 (Agriculture Management – LBS and Activities Protocol)
- IG.26/7 (Aquaculture Management – LBS and Activities Protocol)
- IG.26/8 (Stormwater Management – LBS and Activities Protocol)
18:00 – 19:30 Pollution, including marine litter
19:30 Standing reception for all participants, hosted by UNEP-MAP