The Pelagos Agreement re-launches a Call for expression of interest for the participation in the Working Group on Laws!

If you want to join the Pelagos Working Group in the role of Coordinator or Member, you can apply before September 29^th 2022 at 11:59 pm (Monaco Time).

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The Pelagos Agreement re-opens the Call for the recruitment of the Assistant to the Executive Secretary.

Applications must be received by the Permanent Secretariat of the Pelagos Agreement no later than June 17th, 2022 at 11.59 pm (Monaco Time).

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The deadline to apply to the Call of expression of interest for the Pelagos Working Groups has been postponed to March 31th 2022.

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On March 1st, 2022, the Municipality of Fréjus signed the Pelagos Partnership Charter, confirming its intention to commit to the protection of the marine mammals of the Pelagos Sanctuary. 

The ceremony has been hosted by Port-Fréjus Harbour master's office, at the Sperm whale tail made by sculptor Steve Chaudanson, recently inaugurated to promote the Pelagos Sanctuary.

The Agreement Authorities thank Fréjus and wish them a warm welcome!

The final report of the workshop “A Particularly Sensitive Sea Area for the North-Western Mediterranean”, co-organized by the Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Permanent Secretariat of the Pelagos Agreement, held in Rome and by videoconference on December 17^th,2021, is online.

Click pdf here to consult the final report.

There are only a few days left to send in your application to participate to the Pelagos Agreement Working Groups! 

Closing date for applications is March 6^th 2022 at 11:59 pm (Monaco Time).

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The Pelagos Agreement recruits its Assistant to the Executive Secretary.

Applications must be received by the Permanent Secretariat of the Pelagos Agreement no later than March 29th, 2022 at 11.59 pm (Monaco Time)

  pdf Click here to download the Call.

 The Pelagos Agreement launches a Call for expression of interest for the participation in the Working Groups!

 If you want to join the Pelagos Working groups in the role of Coordinator or Member, you can apply before March 6^th 2022 at 11:59 pm (Monaco Time).

 Click pdf here to download the Call.

In the framework of the conference "Between land and sea: coastal landscape and sustainable mobility in the Ligurian Ponent" to be held on Monday, January 31st, 2022 from 10:00 am to 01:00 im at Villa Nobel in Sanremo (Italy, Imperia Province), Mrs. Costanza Favilli, Executive Secretary of the Pelagos Agreement will intervene on the theme "The Pelagos Agreement : when the protection of marine mammals also requires the safeguarding of coastal and onshore activities". 

You can register to participate in presence or remotely to this event by clicking on the following link: https://www.aiapp.net/convegno_tra-terra-mare-paesaggio-costiero-mobilita-sostenibile-nel-ponente-ligure/  

Click pdf here to download the programme of the event in Italian language. 

The Permanent Secretariat of the Pelagos Agreement and the Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition co-organized a workshop on ship strikes: "A Particularly Vulnerable Sea Area for the North Western Mediterranean".

This workshop took place on December 17th, 2021, in Rome, bringing together representatives of the Parties to the Pelagos Agreement as well as numerous organizations and stakeholders.

Collisions between ships and large cetaceans are the leading cause of non natural mortality in these species. Indeed, the aim of the workshop was to exchange scientific knowledge on the presence of cetaceans in the Sanctuary, on the assessment of mortality resulting from collisions, as well as to present tools to reduce the probability of collisions.

At the end of this workshop, France, Italy and the Principality of Monaco exchanged views on the proposal for the designation of a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (PSSA) in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea to the International Maritime Organization, which the Parties to the Pelagos Agreement and Spain have decided to conduct jointly.