White-beaked dolphin © Nicola Hodgins / WDC

The 29th Meeting of the ASCOBANS Advisory Committee (AC29) is scheduled to be held online from 16 to 18 September 2025.  

For the meeting, Parties are requested to report on pressures and threats to small cetaceans as per UNEP/ASCOBANS/Resolution 10.1 National Reporting: 

• Noise (impulsive i.e. piling and continuous/ambient i.e. shipping) 
• Ocean Energy 
• Unexploded Ordnance 
• Marine Spatial Planning 

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Online registration: Please register here by 17 August 2025.  Requests for observer status should reach the Secretariat by 18 July 2025.  A completed registration form serves as a request for observer status.  Please note that approved observer organisations may register until 17 August 2025.  Kindly refer to the Rules of Procedure for the ASCOBANS Advisory Committee.

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Documents: Meeting documents will be posted on this page as they become available. If you would like to submit information documents relevant to the agenda items, please send them to the Secretariat for consideration by 12 August 2025.

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If you have any questions about the meeting, please contact the ASCOBANS Secretariat.