@article {481,
	title = {Mediterranean countries{\textquoteright} needs for legal, policy and institutional reforms to strengthen the management of existing Marine Protected Areas},
	year = {2007},
	edition = {UNEP-MAP-RAC/SPA},
	address = {Tunis},
	abstract = {<p>Pursuant to \&quot;Facilitation of policy and legislative reforms for SAP MED  and SAP BIO\&quot;, MAP requested to RAC/SPA to identify Mediterranean  countries{\textquoteright} needs in legal, policy and institutional reforms to  strengthen the management of existing marine protected areas. The result  is the present study identifying and prioritising the main needs of  Mediterranean countries for legal, policy and institutional reforms to  strengthen the management of existing marine protected areas. It is  focused on the twelve Mediterranean countries covered by the GEF  project: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt,  Lebanon, Libya, Montenegro, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. It  further presents for reference basic related information from several EU  countries within the region: France, Greece, Italy and Spain.The work  was strongly benefited from the active participation of National Focal  Points. They responded to specific requests for information on legal and  institutional frameworks, although some key documents were eithe   unavailable or not available in translation. The study made also  available technical advise for improvements on those aspects in the  region, including also specific proposals for the GEF beneficiary  countries, not included in this document, and to be directly delivered  to each concerned Party. This study was transmitted as information  document to the SPA Focal Points at their Eighth Meeting held at  Palermo, Italy from 6-9 June 2007.</p>},
	keywords = {Barcelona convention, convention, France, GEF, Greece, institutonal reform, Italy, legislative, management, marine protected area, Mediterranean sea, policy, protected area, Spain},
	author = {C. Shine and T. Scovazzi}
}
