Samantha Burgess, Head of Marine Policy at WWF European Policy Office said: “It is urgent to address plastic waste and marine litter in European seas and the Mediterranean presents an especially critical example. As we’ve seen with the Commission’s recently released proposal on restricting single-use plastic, authorities are now taking action on plastic waste; but if this action fails to be ambitious enough or occur quickly enough, the harmful impacts to wildlife and European fisheries will continue to escalate. Ultimately, global challenges such as marine litter require a global solution. We encourage the EU and its Member States to support the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) process to eliminate plastic leakage into our marine environments and adopt a “Paris Agreement” for Our Ocean.”