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A. Fifth MIO-ECSDE Annual General Meeting

The 5^th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of MIO-ECSDE took place in Athens at the Divani Acropolis Palace Hotel, 2 November 2000.
Representatives of thirty-five (35) Member organizations from 14 countries were present at the AGM.
The Chairman Prof. M. Scoullos and the Co-Chairman Prof. Y. Nouri chaired the meeting and welcomed the participants.

The agenda of the meeting was as follows:

Agenda Item 1: Approval of the Agenda
Agenda Item 2: Report by the Executive Bureau

· Report of Activities 2000
· Financial Report 1999
· Estimated Financial Report 2000

Agenda Item 3: Approval of the Reports under Agenda Item 2
Agenda Item 4: Presentation of the Provisional Work Plan and Provisional Budget for 2001
Agenda Item 5: Approval of Reports under Agenda Item 4
Agenda Item 6: Membership Affairs
a. new applications
b. approval of new Members
Agenda Item 7: Elections for Members of the Executive Bureau
Agenda Item 8: Any other business

Membership
Since November 2^nd the MIO-ECSDE membership has gone from 87 Member Organisations (72 Full and 15 Corresponding Members) to 91 Members (76 Full and 15 Corresponding Members).

The following  (4) national NGOs applied for Membership during 2000 and were approved by the 5^th AGM:

Elections

As in every AGM the Chairman explained the system followed for the elections of the Members of the Executive Bureau (EB). Half of the Members are renewed every year with a two-year term of office each.
The EB seats that were up for renewal were those of Tunisia, Morocco, France and Greece. The EEB, which holds an ex officio seat on the EB will decide who to appoint after its next AGM (2 December 2000). Till then Mr. J. Ribas will remain on the MIO-ECSDE EB representing the EEB and the new person will automatically take his place.
There were two nominations for France: Mr. Jean Doucet of URVN who has been representing the French Members on the MIO-ECSDE EB for the past three years and the President of a relatively new Member Organisation U Marinu: Mr. Geronimi. Ballots were distributed to the voting Members who had also paid their Membership fees and the results of the election were in favor of Mr. Doucet (URVN).
Concerning the other nominations, Prof. Youssef Nouri was nominated for Tunisia and was unanimously elected. Prof. Mohammed Ftouhi was nominated for Morocco and was also unanimously elected. Prof. Michael Scoullos was nominated for Greece and he too was unanimously elected.
From the newly elected EB Prof. Scoullos was individually and unanimously elected as Chairman and Prof. Nouri individually and unanimously elected as Co-Chairman.
Therefore, the MIO-ECSDE EB for 2000-2001 is as follows:  

Under any other business three points were raised to be discussed item:

(a) The AGM decided unanimously to give the “Draft Resolution for the Protection of the Marathon Schinias Wetland Threatened by the Construction of an Olympic Rowing Center” its full support. It is a proposal by MIO-ECSDE Member Elliniki Etairia supported by other Greek MIO-ECSDE Members.

(b)  MIO-ECSDE should send a letter stating to the organizing committee of the Marseilles Civil Forum its disagreement with (i) the procedure followed in deciding who will participate, (ii) the restriction of participation, (iii) the unbalanced representation in the meeting and (iv) the date of the Forum being other than the previous day of the Ministers meeting. He will state that MIO-ECSDE may re-consider its participation. The Secretariat was to draft the letter and send it as soon as possible.

(c)  The need of all documents being translated also into French as the French-speaking Membership face serious problems in following what is going on in MIO-ECSDE. Several Members of the Plenary added that they would eventually like to see this happening with the Arabic language as well.

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B.  Results of the Mediterranean Conference of Water Stakeholders and Decision–Makers: Towards a Core Action Plan, Divani Acropolis Palace, Athens, 2-4 November 2000 

The meeting was co-organised by MIO-ECSDE and MED TAC and supported by the Global Water Partnership, the DG ENV of the Commission of the European Union, the Athens Water Company (EYDAP), UNEP/MAP and the social events by Coca-Cola Hellas.

188 people from 24 different countries attended the Conference. The outcome of the meeting will be available to whoever is interested on the MIO-ECSDE web site (www.mio-ecsde.org) in a short while. Furthermore, a whole issue of Sustainable Mediterranean will be dedicated to the synthesis of the results of this very important for the Mediterranean meeting.

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C. Output of the Marseilles Civil Forum

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