The Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Strategy sets the objective of preventing and eliminating pollution and taking the necessary measures to protect the maritime area against the adverse effects of offshore activities so as to safeguard human health and of conserving marine ecosystems and, when practicable, restoring marine areas which have been adversely affected.

As its timeframe, the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Strategy further declares that the Commission will implement this Strategy progressively and, in so far as they apply, following on and consistent with the commitments made in the other OSPAR Strategies

To implement this Strategy, the OSPAR Commission has adopted:

	Decisions, recommendations and other agreements
	Implementation Reports and Implementation Reporting Formats
	Reports and other publications on the offshore oil and gas industry
	Data reporting formats
	Offshore Industry Committee Work Programme

Recent work by the OSPAR Commission on Hazardous Substances is described in this extract from the Annual Report of the OSPAR Commission 2006/2007.

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