MOROCCO: Twinning with EU to improve environmental protection

Morocco is committed to working in partnership with the European Union in the context of environmental protection. A twinning agreement has therefore been signed between the two parties and aims, among other things, to bring Moroccan regulations on environmental protection into line with those of the EU.

The project that was initialled and signed between the Moroccan government and the EU delegation is entitled “Support for the implementation of the National Charter for the Environment and Sustainable Development in Morocco (CNEDD)”. Twinning will thus enable Morocco to lay the foundations for better pursuit of the sustainable development objectives it has set itself. A number of reforms will be implemented, including the adoption of the CNEDD, in accordance with the international treaties that this North African country has signed and ratified.

The twinning act was formalised during a working session that brought together the Minister for Energy, Mines and the Environment, Aziz Rebbah for the Moroccan side and the EU Ambassador to Morocco, Claudia Wiedey, as well as other international partners (including the Austrian Ambassador to Morocco, Klaus Kögeler, and the Head of Mission of the French Embassy in Morocco, Raphaël Martin de Lagarde).