Euro-Mediterranean Ministers of Environment recently endorsed the timetable for the Horizon 2020 initiative for de-pollution of the Mediterranean Sea by 2020

The Ministers and other heads of delegation participating in the 3rd Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on the Environment held in Cairo on 20 November 2006 invited the European Commission to coordinate the partnership of the Horizon 2020 initiative through the establishment of an efficient institutional steering mechanism with key representatives from the Euro Mediterranean governments and other partners to provide overall guidance, review, monitoring and effectively coordinate with other related initiatives in particular the Strategic Action Programme to address pollution from land based activities (SAP MED).