multilateral environmental agreements | MEA

Status of Multilateral Arms Regulation and Disarmament Agreements

multilateral agreements

Multilateral Environment Agreements | MEAs [Abbr.]

Multilateral Arms Regulation and Disarmament Agreements

multilateral agreements on trade in goods

Multilateral Agreements on Trade in Goods

Working Group on Multilateral Payments and Clearing Arrangements among Developing Countries

bilateral and multilateral assistance arrangements

multilateral payment system

The EU is an active supporter of and party to a number of international agreements and is prepared to take a leading role and further contribute to implementation actions in a number of areas, such as multilateral health agreements, multilateral environmental agreements and international ocean governance.

(5)These include the IMO for shipping, the ISA for seabed-mining, the FAO and RFMOs for fisheries, UNEP, multilateral environment agreements, RSCs and other MEAs for conservation and sustainable use of the marine environment and the IOC of UNESCO for marine scientific research.

Where the notification of the EPPO as a competent authority for the purposes of multilateral agreements already concluded by the Member States with third countries is not possible or is not accepted by the third countries and pending the Union accession to such international agreements, European Delegated Prosecutors may use their status as national prosecutor toward such third countries, provided that they inform and where appropriate endeavour to obtain consent from the authorities of third countries that the evidence collected from these third countries on the basis of those international agreements, will be used in investigations and ...[+++] prosecutions carried out by the EPPO.

This FTA reaffirms the EU Member States’ commitments to the multilateral environmental agreements to which they are party, such as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and CITES on international trade in endangered species of wild flora and fauna.