How Egypt runs the assessment

Green Fins is global; the assessors are local. Egypt’s country page is the administrative half of Camel’s Gold sentence. The programme was piloted in 2019 and rolled out nationally in 2020. The Chamber of Diving & Watersports and the Ministry of Environment run it with Reef-World and UNEP.

A CDWS briefing from 2024 walks managers through Hub registration, the in-person day, and the three action points they leave with. Restricted members who score badly are not meant to advertise themselves as certified. ECO EGYPT’s green list is the consumer-facing twin: a place to see who is currently in good standing.

A national list, not a press release

When a Sharm house says “first Gold in Egypt,” the claim is relative to this programme, in this country, in these years. Rankings move after the next assessment. Our job is to send you to the country page and the membership rules — and to keep the house’s own awards copy in a separate brief.