Meeting calendar August to September 2021 and provisional meeting calendar October 2021 to June 2022
The calendar of meetings for OSPAR from August to September 2021 is shown below.
Calendar of OSPAR meetings August-September 2021 - to be kept under review
Meeting | Date | Full name | Country | City | |
Workshop | TBC over the summer | Workshop on diadromous fish species status assessments | |||
| ICG-EN-Noise | 24 August | Third Joint Session of OSPAR ICG-Noise and HELCOM EN-Noise, | Online | ||
BiTA | 27 August 2021 (3 hours) | Biodiversity Thematic Assessment Group | Online | ||
| HOD | 1 September 2021 | Extra Heads of Delegation meeting | Online | ||
Workshop | 6-8 September 2021 | Workshop on deep sea habitat status assessments | Online | ||
| ICG-ML(2) | 7 September 2021 | Workshop on the marine litter indicators for the QSR | Online | ||
| CCEG | 9 September 2021 | Climate change expert group | Online | ||
| Stakeholder-ML | 13 September | Stakeholder meeting for the preparation of the 2nd Marine Litter Regional Action Plan | Online | ||
BiTA | 17 September 2021 (3 hours) | Biodiversity Thematic Assessment Group | Online | ||
| ICG-OA | 20-21 September 2021 | Intersessional Correspondence Group on Ocean Acidification | United Kingdom | Plymouth | |
| OSPAR/MMC | 27 September-1 October 2021 | OSPAR Commission/ Ministerial Meeting | Portugal | ||
The meeting calendar below is subject to adoption by OSPAR 2021
COLLAR | TBC 2021 To be arranged as soon as a face-to-face meeting is possible (if not possible to arrange earlier, tentative date: 18-19 January 2022) | Collective Arrangement | Belgium | Brussels | |||
HASEC-HOC | 11-13 October 2021 (3 consecutive mornings) | Heads of Delegation to Hazardous Substances and Eutrophication Committee | Online | ||||
ICG-MSFD | 14-15 October 2021 | Intersessional Correspondence Group on the Marine Strategy Framework Directive | Online | ||||
BDC HOD | Date tbc | Heads of Delegation to Biodiversity Committee | Online | ||||
JL(2) 2021 | 22 October 2021 | Jurists/Linguists | Online | ||||
ICG-QSR | 25 October 2021 | Intersessional Correspondence Group on the preparation of the QSR | [Online/Denmark] | ||||
EIHA(2) 2021 | 4 November 2021 | Environmental Impact of Human Activities Committee | Online | ||||
CoG | 16-17 November 2021 | Coordination Group | Secretariat | London | |||
HOD | 18 November 2021 | Heads of Delegation | Secretariat | London | |||
MIME | 22-26 November 2021 | Working Group on Monitoring and on Trends and Effects of Substances in the Marine Environment | ICES Headquarters | Copenhagen | |||
JTG Ballast and Biofouling | 23-24 November 2021 | Joint Task Group on Ballast Water and Biofouling | |||||
ICG-MPA | 23-25 November 2021 | Intersessional Correspondence Group on Marine Protected Areas | Spain | ||||
ICG-ML | 23-26 November 2021 | Intersessional Correspondence Group on Marine Litter | |||||
ICG-POSH | 6-9 December 2021 | Intersessional Correspondence Group on the implementation follow up of measures for the protection and conservation of species and habitats | [tbc] | ||||
ICG-COBAM | 13-17 December 2021 | Intersessional Correspondence Group on Coordination of Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring | [tbc] | ||||
EAP | TBC | Expert Assessment Panel – Offshore report | |||||
ICG-Noise | January 2022 | Intersessional Correspondence Group on Noise | |||||
ICG-QSR | 11-13 January 2022 | Intersessional Correspondence Group on preparation of the QSR | [Denmark/Secretariat] | ||||
ICG-Eut | 24-26 January 2022 | Intersessional Correspondence Group on Eutrophication | [Germany/ Sweden] | ||||
INPUT | 27-28 January 2022 | Working Group on Inputs to the Marine Environment | [Germany/ Sweden] | ||||
RSC | 8-11 February 2022 | Radioactive Substances Committee | European Commission | Luxembourg | |||
OIC | 8-11 March 2022 | Offshore Industry Committee | Germany | Berlin | |||
EIHA | 21–25 March 2022 | Environmental Impact of Human Activities Committee | United Kingdom | Edinburgh | |||
HASEC | 28 March–1 April 2022 | Hazardous Substances and Eutrophication Committee | Spain | Madrid | |||
BDC | 4-8 April 2022 | Biodiversity Committee | [Iceland] | ||||
Easter weekend: 15-18 April 2022 | |||||||
JL | 21-22 April 2022 | Jurists/Linguists | Secretariat | London | |||
NSN | 26-28 April 2022 | North Sea Network | Belgium | ||||
CVC | 11 May 2022, morning (2 hours) | Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen | Secretariat | London | |||
CoG(1) | 11-12 May 2022 | Coordination Group | Secretariat | London | |||
HOD(1) | 13 May 2022 | Heads of Delegation | Secretariat | London | |||
ICG-ML | 16-17 May 2022 | Intersessional Correspondence Group on Marine Litter | Spain | Seville | |||
OTSOPA | 23-25 May 2022 | BA Working Group on Operational, Technical and Scientific Questions concerning Counter Pollution Activities | Belgium | ||||
OSPAR | 20-24 June 2022 | OSPAR Commission | |||||
BONN | September 2022 | Meeting of the Contracting Parties | |||||