Legal provisions of COM(2017)603 - EU position with regard to a proposal for amending Annex II to the Protocol concerning specially protected areas and biological diversity in the Mediterranean

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dossier COM(2017)603 - EU position with regard to a proposal for amending Annex II to the Protocol concerning specially protected areas and ...
document COM(2017)603 EN
date October 19, 2017

Contents

Article 1

The position to be adopted, on behalf of the Union, at the twentieth ordinary meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention for the protection of the marine environment and the coastal region of the Mediterranean (‘Barcelona Convention’) shall be to support the proposal for a decision amending Annex II to the Protocol concerning specially protected areas and biological diversity in the Mediterranean (‘the Protocol’) as regards:

(1)the addition of the following species to:

–Dendrophyllia cornigera,

–Dendrophyllia ramea,

–Desmophyllum dianthus,

–Isidella elongata;

(2)the changes made to the denomination of marine and coastal bird species due to taxonomic changes set out in Annex.

Article 2

After its adoption, the decision referred to in Article 1 shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Commission and the Member States.