Acknowledgements
The site was originally set up under the Black Sea Environmental Programme in 1996 as blacksea-environment.org .
It was further developed as project components under various EC assistance projects, and the GEF Ecosystems Recovery Project adnthe web address was changed to blackseacommission.org
It comprises of www.blackseacommission.org and www.blackseacommission.org
Currently it is maintained by the Permanent Secretariat