Accidentally or not, the Working Group on ICZM Protocol will meet for the third time, again, in Loutraki, Greece, on 12-15 February 2007. The experts are expected to continue their work on reviewing and drafting the final version of the Protocol. On the table there will be the last third of the document and some still open articles from the previous chapters.
The Working Group of experts for the drafting of the ICZM Protocol was established by the decision of the 14th Ordinary Meeting of the Contracting Parties (CPs) to the Barcelona Convention and its Protocols, held in Portoroz, Slovenia (November, 2005). By November 2007, the WG is expected to present the final text, to be, hopefully, adopted by the CPs in 2007. This is also one of the main commitments of the CPs from the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development (MSSD), also adopted in Portoroz.