Legislation

Legislation

This page contains links to on-line versions of environmental legislation relevant to the Caribbean Environment Programme.

The CAR/RCU serves as Secretariat for the Cartagena Convention and its Protocols. For each of these documents there is a Nutshell page, which provides an overview of the legislation, the actual document itself and ancillary documents, such as Annexes, Final Acts, Resolutions and Signatory pages.

The Fine Print

Our glossary of treaty terminology
The Cartagena Convention Status Page

The status of the Convention and its Protocols in the countries of the Wider Caribbean Region.

The Cartagena Convention

The Cartagena Convention in a Nutshell

Hypertext of the Cartagena Convention

The Final Act of the Conference of Plenipotentiaries (actions surrounding the drafting of the Convention)

Resolutions adopted by the Conference of Plenipotentiaries at the drafting of the Convention

The Oil Spills Protocol

The Oil Spills Protocol in a Nutshell

Hypertext of the Oil Spills Protocol

The REMPEITC-Carib Home Page

The Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) Protocol

The SPAW Protocol in a Nutshell

e SPAW Protocol

Annexes to the SPAW Protocol

The Final Act of the Conference of Plenipotentiaries (actions surrounding the drafting of the Protocol)

Resolutions adopted by the Conference of Plenipotentiaries at the drafting of the Protocol

The Land-Based Sources of Marine Pollution (LBS) Protocol

The LBS Protocol in a Nutshell

The Final Act of the Conference of Plenipotentiaries (actions surrounding the drafting of the Protocol)

Hypertext of theLBS Protocol

Other On-Line Legislation

The UNEP gopher page of treaties.: gopher://unep.unep.org:70/11/un/unep/elipac
Texts of International Multilateral Conventions and other instruments on the subject of marine and coastal activities/resources (Courtesy of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy).: http://www.tufts.edu/departments/fletcher/multi/marine.html
Text of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).: http://www.biodiv.org/convtext/cbd0000.htm
Text of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).: http://www.isa.org.jm/unclos/unclos.htm
Text of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat (The Ramsar Convention).: http://www.ramsar.org/key_conv_e.htm
Web site of the Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles: http://www.seaturtle.org/iac/

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