Issue Paper to the International Confrence on Prevention and Management of Marine Litter in European Seas

The role of the present Issue Paper to the \"International Conference and Management of Marine Litter in European Seas\" is to establish for the conference's participants a common \"starting point\", from where discussions can be taken forward to approach the conference's main goal: facilitating the establishment or further development of Regional Action Plans (RAPs) on Marine litter in the regional seas or Regional Sea Conventions (RSCs) of European waters