The Sixth Meeting of the Sessional Committee of the Scientific Council (ScC-SC6) will be held from 18 to 21 July 2023 at the UNEP/CMS Secretariat premises in Bonn, Germany. As ScC-SC6 being the last meeting of the Scientific Council before the Fourteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CMS (COP14), its main objective will be to provide advice on scientific and technical matters to the COP.

The Secretariats of ACCOBAMS and ASCOBANS co-organized an ECS Workshop on current cetacean bycatch issues in European waters, which took take place in O Grove, Galicia, Spain, on 17 April 2023, as part of the 34th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society. The objective was to share information, and to discuss how such bycatch can be mitigated. 

The Secretariats of ASCOBANS and ACCOBAMS jointly organized a workshop on Marine Debris - New and Emerging Aspects, on 15 April 2023 in O Grove, Galicia, Spain, a day before the start of the 34th Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society and its associated workshops (ECS 2023). 

The 11th Meeting of the Steering Group for the ASCOBANS Conservation Plan for Harbour Porpoises in the North Sea (the North Sea Group) took place online from 14 to 15 February 2023.  Chaired by Prof. Peter Evans (Bangor University & Sea Watch Foundation UK), the aim of the meeting was to exchange countries' updates on the implementation of actions listed in the Conservation Plan.