Annual OSPAR report on dumping of wastes or other matter at sea in 2009 -- OSPAR

Annual OSPAR report on dumping of wastes or other matter at sea in 2009

The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (the “OSPAR Convention”) was opened for signature at the Ministerial Meeting of the former Oslo and Paris Commissions in Paris on 22 September 1992. The Convention entered into force on 25 March 1998. It has been ratified by Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom and approved by the European Union and Spain.

North-East Atlantic Environment Summit

The Norwegian Ministry of the Environment will host the Ministerial Meeting of the OSPAR Commission in Bergen, Norway, 23 - 24 September 2010

The Ministers and representatives from the 16 Contracting Parties, with the invited governmental observers from our near neighbours in the Baltic region Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and the Russian Federation, together with the countries bordering the North Atlantic including Canada and the United States of America and the invited observers from intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations will be present. www.ospar.org