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Decisions


2. Identification and analysis of relevant decisions


Some of the treaties have related official meetings with official decisions. A selection of these have been reviewed and where appropriate decisions have been added to the text for the four modules.

 

Below are the decisions reviewed hot-linked to their sources on the internet:

 


  • Aarhus - Convention of 25 June 1998

1st Meeting of the Parties

2nd Meeting of the Parties

5th Ministerial Conference

  • Bern Convention - Convention of 19 September1979 (ETS/104)

Report of the 24th meeting T-PVS (2004) 16 – 29 November / 3 December 2004

Report of the 23rd meeting T-PVS (2003) 24 – 1 / 4 December 2003

Report of the 22nd meeting T-PVS (2002) 13 – 2 / 5 December 2002

Report of the 21st meeting T-PVS (2001) 89 – 26 / 30 November 2001
Report of the 20th meeting T-PVS (2000) 75 – 27 November / 1st December 2000

Report of the 19th meeting T-PVS (99) 30 – 29 November / 3 December 1999

Report of the 18th meeting T-PVS (98) 62 – 30 November / 4 December 1998

Report of the 17th meeting T-PVS (97) 63 – 1st / 5 December 1997
Report of the 16th meeting T-PVS (96) 102 – 2 / 6 December 1996
Report of the 15th meeting T-PVS (96) 23 – 22 / 26 January 1996
Report of the 14th meeting T-PVS (95) 26 – 20 / 24 March 1995
Report of the 13th meeting T-PVS (93) 48 – 29 November / 3 December 1993

  • EU Birds Directive - Council Directive of 2 April 1979 (79/409/EEC)
     

  • EU Emissions Trading - Directive of 13 October 2003 (2003/62/EC)
     

  • EU Emissions Trading Kyoto - Directive of 27 October 2004 (2004/101/EC)
     

  • EU Habitats Directive - Council Directive of 21 May 1992 (92/43/EEC)
     

  • EU Water Directive - Council Directive of 23 October 2000 (2000/60/EEC)
     

  • EU Wildlife Trade - Regulation of 30 August 2001 (1808/2001)
     

  • EU Wildlife Trade - Regulation of 9 December 1996 (338/97)
     

  • EUROBATS - Agreement of 1991

10th Meeting 25 - 27 April 2005

9th Meeting 17 - 19 May 2004

European Workshop16 May 2004

4th Session of the Meeting of the Parties 22 - 24 September 2003

8th Meeting 12 - 14 May 2003

7th Meeting 27 - 29 May 2002

6th Meeting 19 - 21 March 2001

3rd Session of the Meeting of the Parties 24 - 26 July 2000

5th Meeting 21 - 23 February 2000

4th Meeting 19 - 21 April 1999

2nd Session of the Meeting of the Parties 1 - 3 July 1998

  • Kiev Resolution on Biodiversity - Resolution of 21-23 May 2003 (ECE/CEP/108)
     

  • MoU Siberian Crane - Memorandum of (CMS/SC/WCASN-SC/Inf.8)
     

  • OSPAR - Convention of 9 May 2002

Wind Farm Guidance Paper

Ballast Water Management Strategy Newsletter

Meeting on Ballast Water Management

Joint Ministerial Meeting Declaration

Agreement 2005-02Guidance on assessments of the environmental impacts of, and Best Environmental Practice for, offshore windfarms

Agreement 2005-01Explanatory notes - OSPAR Reporting Format on Offshore Wind-farms

Agreement 2004-08OSPAR Guidelines for the Management of Dredged Material. Replaces agreement 1998-20.

Agreement 2004-07Descriptions of habitats on the initial list of OSPAR threatened and/or declining species and habitats

Agreement 2004-06OSPAR List of Threatened and/or Declining Species and Habitats. This replaces agreement 2003-14.

Agreement 2004-05Format for Annual Report on Dumping Operations at Sea (this agreement replaces agreement 2002-01)

Agreement 2004-01Guidelines for the preparation of draft OSPAR Background Documents

Agreement 2003-23 OSPAR's Standard Implementation Reporting and Assessment Procedure. Update 2005

Agreement 2003-22 Strategy for a Joint Assessment and Monitoring Programme (JAMP)

Agreement 2003-21 Revised Strategies of the OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North East Atlantic

Agreement 2003-18 Guidelines for the Management of Marine Protected Areas in the OSPAR Maritime Area

Agreement 2003-17 Guidelines for the Identification and Selection of Marine Protected Areas in the OSPAR Maritime Area

Agreement 2003-16 Guidance on a Common Approach for Dealing with Applications for the Construction and Operation of Offshore Wind Farms

Agreement 2003-15 Agreement on Sand and Gravel Extraction

Agreement 2003-13 Criteria for the Identification of Species and Habitats in need of Protection and their Method of Application

Agreement 2003-10 JAMP Guidelines for Contaminant-specific Biological Effects Monitoring (replaces agreement 2002-14)

Agreement 2001-13 Procedure for Publication of OSPAR Reports

Agreement 2001-04 Terms of Reference for the OSPAR Committees

Agreement 2000-18 Working Procedures for Workshops

Agreement 2000-17 Procedure for Committees to decide on issues of a technical or scientific nature and to adopt "other agreements" that have no budgetary consequences for OSPAR

Agreement 1999-13 OSPAR Guidelines on Artificial Reefs in relation to Living Marine Resources

Agreement 1998-21 OSPAR Guidelines for the Dumping of Fish Waste from Land-Based Industrial Fish Processing Operations

Agreement 1998-15.2 Meaning of certain concepts in Annex V to the 1992 OSPAR Convention

Agreement 1998-15.1 The Protection and Conservation of the Ecosystems and Biological Diversity of the Maritime Area

Agreement 1990-03 Quality Assurance Procedures

Agreement 1997-07 JAMP Guidelines for General Biological Effects Monitoring

Agreement 1990-02 Methods of Monitoring Dumping Grounds for Sewage Sludge

Agreement 1989-02 Monitoring of Dumping Grounds

Agreement 1986-01 Report to the Oslo Commission on Force Majeure Dumping

Agreement 1984-02 Considerations Relevant to the Selection and Monitoring of Dumping Grounds