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General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean

Membership

The GFCM has 24 contracting parties and 5 cooperating non-contracting parties.

Contracting parties: 19 Mediterranean states, 4 Black Sea states and 1 regional economic integration organization

Albania
10 Apr 1991

Algeria
11 Dec 1967

Bulgaria
03 Nov 1969

Croatia
22 May 1995

Cyprus
10 Jun 1965

Egypt
19 Feb 1951

European Union
25 Jun 1998

France
08 Jul 1952

Greece
07 Apr 1952

Israel
20 Feb 1952

Italy
29 May 1951

Lebanon
14 Nov 1960

Libya
13 May 1963

Malta
29 Apr 1965

Monaco
14 May 1954

Montenegro
31 Jan 2008

Morocco
17 Sep 1956

Romania
19 Feb 1971

Slovenia
25 May 2000

Spain
19 Oct 1953

Syrian Arab Republic
                   12 Dec 1975

Tunisia
22 Jan 1954

Türkiye
06 Apr 1954

Ukraine
11 Sep 2025

Cooperating non-contracting parties

Bosnia and Herzegovina
                   2016

Georgia
2015

Jordan
2018

Republic of Moldova
                   2017

Saudi Arabia
2021

Membership in the GFCM is open to Members or Associate Members of FAO and the United Nations that meet the criteria set forth in Article 4 of the Agreement for the establishment of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean. Cooperating non-contracting parties, not formally associated as contracting parties, abide by the measures referred to in Article 8 b) of the Agreement.

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