1. MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT,
ELABORATION OF THE STRATEGY FOR WATER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN (SWM) Informal Meeting of EU Water Directors and EU Marine Directors (agenda item 5.g)
Malmö, 29 November-1 December 2009
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT,
AND RURAL
AND MARINE AFFAIRS

2. STRATEGY FOR WATER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
22 December 2008, Jordania
Declaration process: Union for the Mediterranean:
Declaration of the Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Water
Ministers agree to define the Long Term Strategy for Water in the Mediterranean

3. STRATEGY FOR WATER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
Objective: To have an agreed Strategy (SWM) for the Ministerial Conference
II EUROMEDITERRANEAN MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON WATER
Barcelona (Spain) April 2010
Adoption of the
Strategy for Water in the Mediterranean (SWM)

4. STRATEGY FOR WATER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
TECHNICAL DRAFTING GROUP, TDG
(14 members)
WATER EXPERT GROUP ,WEG (UfM members)
MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE
2010 BARCELONA
SWM elaboration
SWM
approval
SWM
revision

5. STRATEGY FOR WATER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
Overall Work Plan
30 October: Documents agreed in TDG distributed to the WEG
4 November: Working Experts Group (WEG 2) in Cairo:
Approval of the TDG agreed documents:
- Guidelines to drafters
- Overall Work Plan
- Country Role Table
30 November: Inputs form role country table development
ES/MED EUWI/ Sec: Merging all contributions to achieve a
document on the Strategy for Water in the Mediterranean (SWMv0)
15 January 2010: SWMv0 has to be finalized and distributed to the WEG

6. STRATEGY FOR WATER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
Overall Work Plan (cont.)
31 January 2010: SWMv0 Comments from WEG
Beginning February 2010:
- II Technical Drafting Group meeting in Madrid
- Strategy for Water in the Mediterranean V1 (SWMv1)
Mid February 2010: III Water Expert Group meeting
- Final Revision of the Strategy for Water in the Mediterranean
March 2010:
- National Arrangement for adoption of the Strategy by water Ministers

7. STRATEGY FOR WATER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
Adoption of the Strategy for Water in the Mediterranean
Ministerial Conference, Barcelona, Spain
12-13 April 2010

8. Thank you for your attention!
STRATEGY FOR WATER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
Thank you for your attention!