17/09/2010 Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In its draft resolution on preserving the environment in the Mediterranean, the PACE Environment Committee regrets the fact that, despite various initiatives at international level, the Mediterranean “still faces very serious environmental problems”, which are chiefly the result of factors such as overfishing, rampant coastal development and inadequate controls over waste and wastewater disposal.
The text, adopted on the basis of a report by Joseph Falzon (Malta, EPP/CD), calls on European governments to implement “strict policies designed to prevent and reduce environmental degradation”, and enhance national and international environmental legislation and ensure that it is implemented.
The parliamentarians hope that the various projects managed by the Union for the Mediterranean that are currently under way will start yielding practical results soon and propose that co-operation with various international parliamentary assemblies should be stepped up so that joint activities can be launched.