Summary
On Tuesday, 18 July, delegates met in plenary throughout the day to continue consideration of a revised Chair’s text containing draft recommendations to the UN General Assembly. Discussions focused on the following draft elements of a new international legally binding instrument: general elements, including use of terms, scope of application, objectives and relationships with other instruments; general principles and approaches; marine genetic resources; area-based management tools, including marine protected areas; and environmental impact assessments.
Chair Duarte proposed concluding consideration of the revised Chair’s draft on Wednesday morning; holding informal consultations with interested delegations on Wednesday afternoon on difficult points on a non-objection basis; and if no reformulation is possible, developing another section in the draft recommendations to deal with non-consensus points.
IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis report from the 4th Session of the Preparatory Committee Established by the UN General Assembly Resolution 69/292: Development of an International Legally Binding Instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction. The summary and analysis report is now available in HTML and PDF.
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L-R: Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director, UNDOALOS; Barbara Boechat, Brazil; Chair Carlos Sobral Duarte, Brazil; Alice Hicuburundi, UNDOALOS; and Charlotte Salpin, UNDOALOS
View of PrepCom 4 participants
Zakieh Taghizadeh, Iran
Alice Revell, New Zealand
Jean Kenfack, Cameroon
María Claudia Vélez Crismatt, Colombia
Paulo José Chiarelli, Brazil
Metod Špacek, EU
Teresa Cruz Sardiñas, Cuba
Michael Googan, Australia
John Fintakpa Lamega, Togo
Larisa Chernysheva, Russian Federation
Martin Zvachula, Federated States of Micronesia
Ma Xinmin, China
Margo Deiye, Nauru, on behalf of the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS)
Mehdi Remaoun, Algeria, on behalf of the African Group
Rena Lee, Singapore
Evan Bloom, US
L-R: René Lefeber, Tom Diederen, and Wini Broadbelt, the Netherlands
Alistair Graham, Australia, in a conversation with delegates from China
Zentaro Naganuma, Japan, confers with Diedre Mills, Jamaica
L-R: Evan Bloom, US, in a discussion with Zentaro Naganuma, Japan
Joan Yang, Nauru (second from right) in a discussion with delegates from Canada and Switzerland
Delegates from the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) consulting
Delegates from the African Group in informal consultations
Publications at PrepCom 4