Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 7.2
Regional Activity Centres (RACs)
Regional Activity
Centre
Establishment
Description
REMPEC
Regional Marine
Pollution Emergency
Response Centre for
the Mediterranean Sea
Year: 1976
Place: Manoel Island,
Malta
Status: Centre
under IMO/
UNEP agreement,
administrated by
IMO
Aims at preventing and
combating pollution from oil
and other harmful substances
by helping Mediterranean
coastal states to be prepared
for major marine pollution
incidents and to cooperate in
the clean-up
BP/RAC
Blue Plan Regional
Activity Centre
Year: 1977
Place: Sophia
Antipolis, France
Status: National
Centre, with an
NGO status, with
regional function
Adopts a systemic and
prospective approach to
Mediterranean environment
and development issues using
observation and evaluation
tools, generating indicators
and publishing several studies
accordingly
PAP/RAC
Priority Actions
Programme Regional
Activity Centre
Year: 1980
Place: Split, Croatia
Status: National
Centre with
regional function
Aims to improve the
Mediterranean
environmental situation by
addressing priority actions.
It is mainly concerned
with integrated coastal
area management to lessen
development problems in built
up coastal areas
SPA/RAC
Specially Protected
Areas Regional
Activity Centre
Year: 1994
Place: Tunis, Tunisia
Status: National
Centre with
regional function
Focuses on biodiversity
issues and is involved in the
protection of Mediterranean
species, their habitats and
ecosystems by producing, inter
alia, strategies for biodiversity
conservation
CP/RAC
Cleaner Production
Regional Activity
Centre
Year: 1995
Place: Barcelona,
Spain
Status: Public
company put at
the disposal of
MAP
Focuses on promoting
and disseminating cleaner
production technologies for
industrial sector in order to
reduce industrial waste at
source of the Mediterranean
industrial sector
