The second meeting of the Working Group to prepare the text of the ICAM Protocol was held in Athens, 4-5 January 2005. After some years of initial discussions on the need for this protocol and preparatory activities, such a complex legal instrument has seen the light for the first time, in its draft shape. Legal and technical (ICAM) experts, as well as representatives of MEDU, discussed the general structure of the draft protocol and made comments and suggestions on the contents of individual articles and provisions. The meeting was a very fruitfull one, which provided the Working Group with the substantial elements for the second, improved, draft to be reviewed at the next expert meeting in the second half of February.
