"urge member and observer States to make changes to the existing conventions on the environmental protection of certain areas and to propose mechanisms for the implementation of their principles and for monitoring and reporting on the conventions in times of armed conflicts. For example, the Convention on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution deals only with peace time implementation, despite a significant environmental effect caused by the Russian occupation of Crimea, the illegal construction of the Kerch bridge, and current military aggression against Ukraine, including the impossibility at presenting a national report on the state of pollution of the Black Sea due to the absence of effective control over the significant water areas as a result of the illegal occupation.
Most of the existing conventions on the environmental protection of certain areas do not envisage mechanisms for the implementation and monitoring or reporting on their principles in times of armed conflicts.