The Seventh Foreign Affairs Ministers’ Conference on 30 and 31 May 2005 in Luxembourg once again confirm
ed the Commission’s initiative to remove pollution from the Mediterranean by 2020, the object of which initiative was to address all sources of
pollution including industrial emissions, municipal wa
ste and urban waste water, in order to improve the development prospects for tourism, increase the fisheries stocks, and make safe drinking water available to millions of members of the public in
...[+++]these regions, and the Mediterranean partners were to be supported in this by the provision of appropriate funding.