Beach management guidelines round the corner

Regional Workshop on Beach Management Guidelines for the Mediterranean was held in the premises of the Foundation for International Studies in Valletta, Malta, on July 2-3, 2007. It was attended by representatives of 8 Mediterranean countries, the Beachmed project, the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Insular Coastal Dynamics (ICoD) and PAP/RAC, as well as a number of observers from Italy and Malta. The participants were welcomed by Ms. Pauline Dingli of the Malta Tourism Authority, on behalf of the Minister for Tourism and Culture, the Hon. Francis Zammit Dimech. In the two days of the workshop, the draft text of the Guidelines was discussed in detail and a number of suggestions were made to improve it. The authors will take those comments in consideration when preparing the final text of the Guidelines to be published by the end of the year.