Mediterranian MoU

Within the International effort to increase the Maritime Safety and the prevention of pollution and within the activities of the Euro-Med conference that was held in Barcelona 28th of November 1995, it was declared the birth of cooperation project financed by the E.C. under the umbrella of the IMO and ILO. This declaration was developed according to STCW 95 and the international community interest in activating the role of Port State Control to a proposed agreement for southern and eastern Mediterranean countries for a Port State Control System.

This agreement was prepared through two meetings the 1st was held in Tunisia 25-29 March 1996 and the 2nd in Casablanca, Morocco from 10-14 December 1996.
On the 8th-11th of July 1997 the third and final preparatory meeting was held in Malta for signing an MoU between the participating countries to confirm the responsibility of the maritime authorities to implement the relevant instruments agreed upon on ships calling the ports of the Memorandum to inforce the elimination of sub-standard and ships for a safer-shipping and cleaner oceans.