Updated on 13 April 2016
UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS | INTERNATIONAL SEABED AUTHORITY
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Dates |
Meeting |
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15 January 2016 (1 day) |
Resumed twenty-fifth Meeting of States Parties to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea |
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1 February to 18 March 2016 (7 weeks) |
Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf Fortieth session
1 to 5 February 2016 (Subcommissions) (one week)
8 to 12 February 2016 (Plenary part) (one week)
16 February to 4 March 2016 (Subcommissions) (three weeks)
7 to 11 March 2016 (Plenary part) (one week)
14 to 18 March 2016 (Subcommissions) (one week) |
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21 March 2016
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Preparatory meeting: Seventeenth meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea |
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22 to 23 March 2016 (2 days) |
Informal consultations of States Parties to the United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement, Twelfth round |
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28 March to 8 April 2016 (2 weeks) |
Preparatory Committee established by 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 First session |
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Dates to be determined |
Preparatory meeting(s) of the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole on the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects |
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23 to 27 May 2016 (1 week) |
Resumed Review Conference on the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks |
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13 to 17 June 2016 (1 week) |
United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea Seventeenth meeting |
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20 to 24 June 2016 (1 week) |
Meeting of States Parties to the
1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea |
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11 July to 26 August 2016 (7 weeks)
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Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf Forty-first session
11 to 15 July 2016 (Subcommissions) (one week)
18 to 22 July 2016 (Plenary part) (one week)
25 July to 12 August 2016 (Subcommissions) (three weeks)
15 to 19 August 2016 (Plenary part) (one week)
22 to 26 August 2016 (Subcommissions) (one week) |
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1 to 2 August 2016 (2 days) |
Workshop to discuss implementation
of paragraphs 113, 117 and 119 to 124 of resolution 64/72 and paragraphs 121,
126, 129, 130 and 132 to 134 of resolution 66/68 on sustainable fisheries,
addressing the impacts of bottom fishing on vulnerable marine ecosystems and
the long-term sustainability of deep-sea fish stocks |
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3 to 9 August 2016 (5 days) |
Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole on the Regular Process for global reporting and assessment of the state of the marine environment, including socioeconomic aspects Seventh meeting |
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26 August to 9 September 2016 (2 weeks) |
Preparatory Committee established by 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 Second session |
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17 October to 2 December 2016 (7 weeks) |
Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf Forty-second session (Subcommissions only) |
2016: Tentative schedule for the informal consultations on the draft resolutions under agenda item “Oceans and the law of the sea” (Seventy-first session, 2016)
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(a) Oceans and the law of the sea |
(b) Sustainable fisheries |
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First round 26 to 30 September 2016 (5 days)
Second round 16 to 22 November 2016 (5 days)
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7 to 15 November 2016 (7 days)) |
INTERNATIONAL SEABED AUTHORITY
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Dates |
Meeting |
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22 February to 4 March 2016 4-22 July 2016 |
Legal and Technical Commission (Kingston) Twenty-second Session of the Authority (Kingston) |