REMPEC: Mediterranean marine pollution response

REMPEC is the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea — a joint body of the United Nations Environment Programme / Mediterranean Action Plan and the International Maritime Organization. Based in Valletta, Malta, REMPEC coordinates the Mediterranean basin's preparedness for and response to marine pollution incidents.

Background

REMPEC's public site is the central reference point for the 22 contracting parties to the Barcelona Convention — Mediterranean coastal states and the European Union — plus the shipping operators, port authorities, NGOs and researchers who rely on the Centre's guidance, training materials, and incident response coordination.

The audience is genuinely international, technical, and bilingual (English + French as the primary working languages). The publishing workflow involves multiple sub-programmes — pollution response, ports and ship-source emissions, shipping safety, sub-regional contingency planning — each with its own content stewards and update rhythms.

What we do

PretaGov hosts and supports the main REMPEC site on managed Plone, with content patterns, document management and workflow tuned to the Centre's needs. Hosting infrastructure sits under PretaGov's Cyber Essentials–certified managed-hosting service.

Beyond core hosting, we've supported the Centre through site evolution and sub-programme spinouts. When the West Mediterranean MOPoCo (Marine Oil Pollution Cooperation) sub-programme stood up its own site presence in 2021, we delivered the platform install on a partner-managed server (INFO RAC) and handed off ongoing operations to their infrastructure team.

Why the partnership lasts

Multilateral bodies like REMPEC need partners willing to support a complex, slowly-evolving site through institutional change — without expecting the kind of churn budget a startup or commercial site might absorb. The partnership now spans multiple Secretariat staffing cycles, technical platform versions, and policy framework updates, and the site has remained a stable reference point for the Mediterranean basin throughout.