Abidjan Convention definition

Abidjan Convention and “ABC” means, each, the “Convention for Co-operation in the Protection and Development of the Marine and Coastal environment of the West and Central African Region”, whose mandate is to create a common approach and policy for coastal zone management and which sets forth an overarching legal framework for all marine-related programmes in West, Central and Southern Africa for the Republic of Angola, Republic of Benin, the Republic of Cameroon, the Republic of Cape Verde, the Republic of the Congo, the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of Gabon, the Republic of The Gambia, the Republic of Ghana, the Republic of Guinea, the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, the Republic of Liberia, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, the Republic of Namibia, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, the Republic of Senegal, the Republic of Sierra Leone, the Republic of South Africa and the Togolese Republic.
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Abidjan Convention. ’ means the Convention for Cooperation in the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Atlantic Coast of the West, Central and Southern Africa Region, 1984; 30
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Examples of Abidjan Convention in a sentence

  • It will support the regional implementation of the Global Programme of Action for Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities, relevant components of the Abidjan Convention and those of the Accra Ministerial Declaration.

  • The Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME) project has proven useful in the process of revitalising the Abidjan Convention.

  • It is anticipated that regional programmes such as CCLME, PRCM and Abidjan Convention would be invited to attend as observers.

  • Convention for Cooperation in the Protection and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the West and Central African Region (Abidjan Convention), entered into force on August 5, 1984, art.

  • Part of this is accounted for by funding to the RAC in Gabon, while leveraged resources from UNEP include substantial cash and in kind support through the GPA, Abidjan Convention secretariat and Division of Environmental Law and Conventions.

  • Key technical partners were the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and Abidjan Convention Secretariat.

  • In the West, Central and Southern Africa Region, cooperation between RFBs and the Abidjan Convention seems to be on track, as demonstrated by the 2012 Decision of the Abidjan Convention Contracting Parties to work together with these organisations and develop cooperation.

  • One option would be to establish a bi-directional information flow scheme based on a hub and spoke model with an EIMS in the centre that may be hosted by the (I)GCC or Abidjan Convention Secretariat.

  • This is the same branch that is responsible for oversight of the Abidjan Convention and the move fuelled a perception amongst some stakeholders that UNEP’s supervision of Output 5.7 ( Development of a Regional Coordination Mechanism) was biased or partial.

  • Important milestones during the life of the project have been the completion of a transboundary diagnostic analysis (TDA), development and endorsement of the SAP, creation of the Interim Guinea Current Commission (IGCC) and the decision to create a permanent Guinea Current Commission (GCC) through a protocol to the Abidjan Convention.

Related to Abidjan Convention

  • Warsaw Convention means the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, signed at Warsaw, October 12, 1929, as amended, but not including the Montreal Convention as defined above.

  • Montreal Convention means the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, signed at Montreal, May 28, 1999.

  • the Convention means the Convention on International Civil Aviation opened for signature at Chicago on 7 December 1944, and includes: (i) any amendment that has entered into force under Article 94(a) of the Convention and has been ratified by all the Contracting Parties to this Agreement, and (ii) any Annex or any amendment thereto adopted under Article 90 of the Convention, insofar as such Annexes or amendments are, at any given time, effective for all the Contracting Parties to this Agreement;

  • Paris Convention means the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of March 20, 1883, as last revised;

  • Convention means the Convention on International Civil Aviation, opened for signature at Chicago on 7 December 1944, and includes:

  • international air transport means air transport that passes through the airspace over the territory of more than one State;

  • International air transportation means transportation by air between a place in the United States and a place outside the United States or between two places both of which are outside the United States.