The Regional Programme and the environment - Environment Day June 5

Recognising that the environment is fragile and is deteriorating, its protection and improvement have become key to the cooperation between the EU and its Mediterranean Partners. This cooperation includes tackling water scarcity and quality, as well as natural or man-made disasters, the reform of environmental standards and infrastructure, and environmental sustainability.

The Regional Programme funds a number of projects under the environment chapter, like Civil Protection, EMWIS (water sector), MEDA water (resource management) and SMAP III (sustainable environmental development). Projects coming under other policy areas, for example MED-ENEC that encourages the use of solar energy, also have a correlation to the environment.

The EuroMed Info Centre has prepared two success stories, in English, French and Arabic, on environment-related projects funded by the Regional Programme:

“Olive mill waste: a source of concern for the environment” - our latest Feature story, with special references to a project in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan: Feature story

“EMWIS Algeria: the winning team”: Featurestory

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News type	Inbrief
File link	http://www.euromedinfo.eu/site.169.news.en.3982.html
Source of information	EuroMed Info Centre
Subject(s)	INFRASTRUCTURES , NATURAL MEDIUM , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY
Geographical coverage	Euromed
News date	05/06/2008
Working language(s)	ARABIC , ENGLISH , FRENCH

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