Moreover, in the 2002 European Commission communication to the Council and Parliament entitled “Towards a strategy to protect and conserve the marine environment”, the Commission had undertaken to “play an active role in a process recently started by UNEP aimed at establishing a regular process for assessing the state of the marine environment at a global scale”.s The European Union gave its support to the GMA process, as it was very much committed to integrating environmental issues in all its relevant policies, in line with the conclusions of the Presidency of the European Council of 20-21 March 2003.
Además, en la comunicación de la Comisión Europea presentada en 2002 al Consejo y al Parlamento con el título “Hacia una estrategia de protección y conservación del medio ambiente marino”, la Comisión se había comprometido a “desempeñar un papel activo en el proceso recientemente iniciado por el PNUMA con el fin de establecer un proceso regular de evaluación del estado del medio ambiente marino a escala mundials.