Summary
On Friday, 11 August, in the morning the Council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) addressed the report of the Legal and Technical Commission (LTC), focusing on: contractors’ training programmes and annual reports, including questions on contractors’ non-compliance; the draft exploitation regulations, including questions on stakeholder inputs and a roadmap for the delivery of the regulations; the review of recommendations for the guidance of contractors’ environmental impacts assessments (EIAs), and the review of the implementation of the environmental management plan (EMP) for the Clarion-Clipperton Zone and the development of EMPs in other zones, including questions on Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs) under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD); implementation of the data management strategy; and matters referred to the Commission by the Council. In the afternoon, the Council considered draft decisions on financial and budgetary matters, and on future elections of LTC members.
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Participants picking up the latest session documents
L-R: Christian Reichert, Germany, LTC Chair; Alfonso Ascencio-Herrera, Legal Counsel and Deputy to the Secretary-General; and Michael Lodge, ISA Secretary-General
Ariel Fernández, Argentina, Council President for the 23rd Session
Christian Reichert, Germany, LTC Chair
Michael Lodge, ISA Secretary-General
Mehdi Remaoun, Algeria
René Lefeber, the Netherlands
Kenneth Wong, Canada
Frida Armas-Pfirter, Argentina
Maruthadu Sudhakar, India
Arne Küper, Germany
Cecilia Jaber, Mexico
Takuya Maeba, Japan
Duncan Currie, Greenpeace
Simon Walmsley, WWF
Andrew Murdoch, UK
Conn Nugent, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Jean-Michel Despax, France
Mohammed Atlassi, Morocco
Kristina Gjerde, IUCN
Kate Neilson, New Zealand
Delegates from Japan discussing the Report of the LTC Chair
Delegates from China review documents during the session
René Lefeber, the Netherlands, consulting with Ariel Fernández, Argentina, Council President for the 23rd Session
Khurshed Alam, Bangladesh (left), in a conversation with Jean-Michel Despax, France
L-R: Duncan Currie, Greenpeace; Matthew Gianni, Deep Sea Conservation Coalition; and Kristina Gjerde, IUCN
Megan Jungwiwattanaporn, the Pew Charitable Trusts, with delegates from China
L-R: Geraldine Geddes and Ena Harvey Chen, ISA Secretariat
L-R: Mario Aurelio and Ana Marie Hernando, the Philippines
L-R: Michael Lodge, ISA Secretary-General, and Elie Jarmache, France