Sustainable Beaches Protocol

The Costa Nostrum - Sustainable Beaches protocol has been recognized as Good Practice for the European Interreg Programs BLUEIslands, MISTRAL, and CapOnLitter and we have been distinguished at the European and Greek Business Awards for the Environment 2020.
Similar protocol for the sustainable management, certification, and promotion of beaches does NOT exist globally.
We seek to achieve the sustainable development of both the beaches and the wider coastal area and to prevent the environmental causes, instead of "curing" them, by proposing specific actions and measures depending on the unique characteristics of each beach. It is a dynamic upgrading system that can incorporate solutions, depending on the needs and characteristics of each beach. Bathers can take part in the evaluation of the certified beaches through the non-stop online questionnaire survey and allows its annual scoring upgrade.