Union for the Mediterranean: The 3rd Meeting Water Expert Group, 25 February 2010, Madrid

The Third Meeting of the Water Expert Group (WEG-3) will take place on 25 February 2010, in Madrid, Spain, under the co-chairmanship of France, Egypt and Spain.

Participation is opened on invitation ONLY to members and observers of the Water Expert Group -WEG. 

This WEG meeting focused on the elaboration of a new Strategy for Water in the Mediterranean based on the proposal of the Technical Drafting Group -TDG-. The TDG was defined at the last WEG meeting in Athens in September 2009 (composed of Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Spain, Syria, Croatia, the European Commission and the League of Arab States). The TDG is meeting in Madrid on 4 February 2010 to prepare the first draft verion of the text of the new Strategy for Water in the Mediterranean.

This strategy is aimed to be adopted at the next Ministerial Conference on Water, 12-14 April 2010, in Spain.