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Objective 2.1.1. Current legislation prohibiting to carry firearms and explosives aboard
fishing vessels in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus is enforced, with a special attention in locations
listed in Goal Target 2.1.

Objective Target 2.1.1.1. Compliance with existing laws concerning firearms and
explosives aboard fishing vessels in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus is routinely enforced
everywhere, to come into effect with immediate urgency. Appropriate statistics of
infringements are kept and publicized. Infringements are prosecuted with penalties
appropriate to address the destruction of a critically endangered, specially protected
species. Current illegal fishing practices are eradicated.

Objective 2.1.2. Locations listed in Goal Target 2.1, and other equally important locations
that may be eventually discovered in the future, are geographically delimited and legally
protected/managed.

Objective Target 2.1.2.1. A monk seal MPA (or an MPA network) encompassing the
most important monk seal habitat in the area is formally established in the Greek
Ionian islands by 2014.

Objective Target 2.1.2.2. The current Natura 2000 site around the island of Gyaros
is formally established as a monk seal protected area by 2014.

Objective Target 2.1.2.3. A monk seal MPA is formally established in Kimolos -
Polyaigos by 2013.

Objective Target 2.1.2.4. A monk seal MPA is formally established in Karpathos -
Saria by 201310.

Objective Target 2.1.2.5. Monk seal MPAs are designated along the Aegean and
Mediterranean coastline of Turkey by 2014, to protect monk seal critical habitat as
determined and mapped by the Turkish National Monk Seal Committee.

Objective Target 2.1.2.6. A monk seal MPA is designated in Cyprus where suitable
critical monk seal critical habitat is identified, and established by 2015.

Objective 2.1.3. Areas in locations listed under Goal Target 2.1 are effectively protected
through a) appropriate management actions, and b) the keen involvement of the local
communities, which will both ensure the good conservation status of monk seals found there.
A management framework is in place and implemented, defining the spatial, temporal and
specific measures needed in the species’ critical habitats (e.g., regulating access to caves),
thereby affording effective protection to haul out and pupping sites.

Objective Target 2.1.3.1. Until formal protection of the areas listed under Goal
Target 2.1 is established and enforced, patrolling of the most important haul out and

10 Greece has already established the protected area Management Body in Karpathos in 2007, however the MPA
has not been legally declared yet.