The Pelagos Agreement promotes two majors kinds of commitments to raise public awareness:

1. The Partnership Charter with littoral municipalities of the Pelagos Sanctuary.
Municipalities whose territory is located in the Pelagos Sanctuary could join a Partnership Charter. By signing the Pelagos Charter, municipalities commit themselves at least for 2 years to:
taking a political decision to protect marine mammals;
training their staff, organize public awareness campaigns on marine mammals and communicate on the actions of the Pelagos Agreement;
relaying the information in case of strandings of marine mammals on their territory.

2. The "High Quality Whale-Watching" trademark (ACCOBAMS property developed with the Pelagos Agreement) dedicated to the whale watching operators. To encourage operators to subscribe the trademark, Permanent Secretariat of the Pelagos Agreement promotes the trademark by organizing events (the last conference took place the 3rd May 2017 at the Yacht Club of Monaco).
To obtain the High Quality Whale-Watching trademark, whale watching operators have to comply with the following rules:
Trips shall have a naturalist approach and commit to the Code of Good Conduct implemented by the Pelagos Sanctuary and the ACCOBAMS Agreement. Swim-with-cetaceans and feeding cetaceans activities are banned from the certification and aerial detection assistance is also excluded in France;
There shall always be a crew member on-board that has attended a 3-day dedicated training course. Each manager must have followed the training courses as well;
Provision of waste sorting bins shall be implemented and no disposable crockery shall be provided on-board;
Operators shall provide their observations to scientific bodies. The free REPCET smartphone application enables them to take part in a large-scale ship strike reduction programme;
Operators shall be evaluated at least once every three years by a Committee. In addition, evaluation sheets are given to passengers who are invited to send them back to the organisation in charge of managing the certification.