Regional Organization For The Protection of The Marine Environment - ROPME

About us

The Regional Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Areas was held in Kuwait in April 1978. In this Conference, Eight Member States signed the accord on the Kuwait Regional Convention for Cooperation on the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Areas. The conference also adopted the Kuwait Action Plan to implement the agreement and the Protocol concerning Regional Co-operation in Combating Pollution by Oil and Other Harmful Substances.

The Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment (ROPME) was established in early 1979 based on Article XVI of the agreement to implement the Kuwait Action Plan and the Kuwait Regional Convention and its Protocols. Initially, a UNEP Interim Secretariat administered the programmes and activities of the Organization until the ROPME Secretariat was formally established in Kuwait on 1 January 1982.