UNEP(DEC)MED WG

UNEP(DEC)/MED WG.268/12
Annex III
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III.2. Suggestions made to put areas within the national jurisdiction on the
SPAMI List:
Five suggestions were made on this subject during the inter-Meeting period (see
Annex III), four by Algeria and one by Italy.
III.3. List of SPAs established in pursuance of Article 5:
Only the following countries (France, Italy, Libya, Malta, Slovenia, Spain and Tunisia)
appended lists to their reports. As for modifications of the borders or the legal status
of SPAMIs, these were almost inexistent, both as regards the legal system and as
regards SPAMI borders (see Annex III).
III.4. Non- indigenous species and GMOs:
In most of the reports, it was noted that introductions of species were either not
permitted, or not yet signalled, or still subject to authorization; however, in Spain, a
list of non-indegenouss species was identified; in France, two species of Caulerpa,
C. taxifolia and C. racemosa, were being monitored with a great deal of attention; in
Italy, 541 non-indigenous species were identified in the Mediterranean; in Lebanon,
22 invasive species were identified; in Libya, 22 invasive species were also identified;
Tunisia provided a list of identified Lessepsian species.
III.5. Dispensations from protection measures:
Dispensations from protection measures were not mentioned in most of the
countries, except in France, where 35 dispensations were granted for scientific
purposes, and in Malta, where dispensations were granted for four species for fishfarming
purposes.
III.6. Inventory of elements of biodiversity:
Under this heading information was requested on the dates of making or updating
inventories of areas containing rare or fragile ecosystems and inventories of
endangered or threatened floral and/or faunal species, appending the relative
inventory/ies. The national reports gave only a partial response to this request, and
few of them enclosed recent and/or updated inventories. This can be explained by
the lack of human means, particularly taxonomists, as was stressed in the fourth part
of the report (problems and constraints). The following information was provided by
the countries about their inventories of the constituent elements of biodiversity.
Albania: an inventory of wetlands was published; the list of fauna species exists; a
red book on flora and fauna is being prepared.
Algeria: the list of fauna and flora species and of ecosystems was prepared.
Bosnia-Herzegovina: the report included descriptive lists of Bosnian flora and fauna,
particularly those in a nature park.
Cyprus: no inventory mentioned, except for a piece of information on the 2004
revision of a database on potential areas and species to be protected.
Egypt: no inventory mentioned or appended to the report.