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Ministerial Meetings

2003 Ministerial Meeting

Joint Ministerial Meeting of the Helsinki and OSPAR Commissions, Bremen: 25-26 June 2003

Ministerial Meeting of the OSPAR Commission, Bremen 25 June 2003

x Declaration of the Joint Ministerial Meeting of the Helsinki and OSPAR Commissions

Statements referred to in the Joint Ministerial Declaration
x Statement on the Ecosystem approach to the management of Human Activities
x Statement on the European Marine Strategy

x Ministerial Meeting of the OSPAR Commission, Bremen Statement
x Press statement


1998 Ministerial Meeting

The 1998 Ministerial meeting of the OSPAR Commission was held in conjunction with the 1998 annual meeting of the Commission on 22-23 July 1998, in Sintra, Portugal.

x Main results of the meeting


1992 Ministerial Meeting

A meeting of the Oslo and Paris Commissions at Ministerial level was held in Paris on 21-22 September 1992. This meeting was attended by Ministers responsible for the marine environment of the 14 signatory states to the Oslo and Paris Conventions, Switzerland and by a representative of the Commission of the European Communities. Observers from Canada, Italy, Mexico, Russia, the USA and a number of intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations also took part in this meeting.

The most important outcome of this ministerial meeting was the adoption of a new Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic, together with a Final Declaration and an Action Plan to guide the future work of the Commissions.

x Ministerial Declaration 1992

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