Contracting Parties

Under the Rules of Procedure the OSPAR Commission consists of representatives of each of its 16 Contracting Parties.

The Contracting Parties are Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom, together with the European Union. Finland is not on the western coasts of Europe, but some of its rivers flow to the Barents Sea and historically it was involved in the efforts to control the dumping of hazardous waste in the Atlantic and the North Sea. Luxembourg and Switzerland are Contracting Parties due to their location within the catchments of the River Rhine.

The Commission elects a Chair and two Vice-chairs by the unanimous vote of the Contracting Parties present at annual Commission meetings. Currently the Chair of the OSPAR Commission is Ane-Marie Løvendahl Eskildsen (Denmark). The Vice-chairs are Jorge Ureta Maeso (Spain) and Maude Jolly (France).

If you wish to obtain information about national activities related to the work of OSPAR, please address your request to the relevant national contact point(s) below:

BelgiumBelgium

Steven Vandenborre
Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment
DG Environment
Galileelaan 5/2
B-1210 Brussels
Belgium

DenmarkDenmark

Linda Bistrup Halvorsen
Ministry of Environment
Holmens Kanal 42
1216 Copenhagen K
Denmark

European UnionEuropean Union

Silvia Bartolini
European Commission Environment DG
Marine Environment and Water Industry
B-1049
Brussels
Belgium

FinlandFinland

Sara Viljanen
Ministry of the Environment
Aleksanterinkatu 7
Helsinki
FI-00023 Government, Finland

FranceFrance

Nabil Medaghri Alaoui
Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs
27 rue de la Convention,
F-75732 PARIS Cedex 15
France
+33 1 43 17 7052

Maude Jolly
Ministère de la Transition écologique
Direction des affaires européennes et internationales

Tour Pascal A, 6 place des Degrés
92055 La Défense Cedex
+33 (0) 1 4081 7665

GermanyGermany

Sabine Lattemann
Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz
und nukleare Sicherheit

Stresemannstraße 128-130
10117 Berlin
GERMANY
+49 3018 305 2526

IcelandIceland

Hugi Olafsson
Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources
Skuggasund 1
IS-101 Reykjavik
+354 896 2130

IrelandIreland

Oliver Ó Cadhla
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Floor 4, 1A South Mall
Cork
IRELAND
00 353761064850

LuxembourgLuxembourg

Eric Schauls
Ministère de l’Environnement, du Climat et du Développement durable
4, place de l’Europe
L-1499 LUXEMBOURG
+ 352 2478-6852

NetherlandsNetherlands

Ilse van de Velde
Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat

NorwayNorway

Anja Elisenberg
Ministry of Climate and Environment
PO Box 8013 Dep
N-0030 Oslo
NORWAY
+47 22 24 58 72

Eirik Drabløs-Pettersen
Ministry of Climate and Environment
PO Box 8013 Dep
N-0030 Oslo
NORWAY

PortugalPortugal

José Manuel Marques
Direçao Geral de Recursos Naturais, Segurança e Serviços Marítimos
Av. Brasilia
1449-030 Lisbon
Portugal
+351 213 035 711

SpainSpain

Itziar Martin Partida
Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge
Madrid
Spain

SwedenSweden

Jenny Hedman
Ministry of Environment and Energy
10333 Stockholm
SWEDEN
+ 46 8405 81 95

SwitzerlandSwitzerland

Sibylle Vermont
Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape
Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
CH-3003 Berne
SWITZERLAND
+41 58 462 85 47

United KingdomUnited Kingdom

Andrew Scarsbrook
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Marine Environment Division

Nobel House
London SW1A 2HH
UNITED KINGDOM

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs