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National Reports

Document Number	Title	CMS Instrument	Publish date
ASCOBANS/MOP9/NR.2	2016-2019 National Report: United Kingdom	ASCOBANS	26/06/2020
ASCOBANS/AC28/NR.6	2022 Annual National Report: United Kingdom	CMS	10/07/2023
ASCOBANS/AC27/NR.7	2021 Annual National Report: United Kingdom	ASCOBANS	24/06/2022
ASCOBANS/AC26/NR5	2020 Annual National Report: United Kingdom	ASCOBANS	09/07/2021
ASCOBANS/AC25/NR2	2018 Annual National Report: United Kingdom	ASCOBANS	01/08/2019
AC24/Inf.2.f	2017 Annual National Report: United Kingdom	ASCOBANS	14/06/2018
AC22/Inf.15.1.j	2014 Annual National Report: United Kingdom	ASCOBANS	03/08/2015
AC21/Inf.12.1.j Rev.2	2013 Annual National Report United Kingdom	ASCOBANS	30/09/2014
AC20/Doc.13.j	2012 Annual National Report United Kingdom	ASCOBANS	23/07/2013
AC19/Doc.2-10	Annual National Report United Kingdom	ASCOBANS	15/03/2012

Ratification status

CMS Instrument	Status	Status date	Notes
ASCOBANS	Party	13/07/1993

Date of accession:

Tuesday, 13 July 1993

Official name	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Region	Atlantic Ocean North Sea
Entry into force	July 1993

Related content

Scientific name	Common name	Class	Order	Family	Appendix (App. I / App. II)
Delphinus delphis	Short-Beaked Common Dolphin	Mammalia	Cetacea	Delphinidae	2005 / 1988
Globicephala melas	Long-Finned Pilot Whale	Mammalia	Cetacea	Delphinidae	- / -
Grampus griseus	Risso's Dolphin	Mammalia	Cetacea	Delphinidae	- / -
Hyperoodon ampullatus	Northern Bottlenose Whale	Mammalia	Cetacea	Ziphiidae	- / -
Lagenorhynchus acutus	Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin	Mammalia	Cetacea	Delphinidae	- / -
Lagenorhynchus albirostris	White-Beaked Dolphin	Mammalia	Cetacea	Delphinidae	- / -
Mesoplodon bidens	Sowerby's Beaked Whale	Mammalia	Cetacea	Ziphiidae	- / -
Orcinus orca	Killer Whale	Mammalia	Cetacea	Delphinidae	- / -
Phocoena phocoena	Harbour Porpoise	Mammalia	Cetacea	Phocoenidae	- / -
Stenella coeruleoalba	Striped Dolphin	Mammalia	Cetacea	Delphinidae	- / -
Tursiops truncatus	Bottlenose Dolphin	Mammalia	Cetacea	Delphinidae	- / -
Ziphius cavirostris	Cuvier's Beaked Whale	Mammalia	Cetacea	Ziphiidae	- / -

Meeting	Start date	Status	Country	CMS Instrument
Workshop on the Further Development of Management Procedures for Defining the Threshold of ‘Unacceptable Interactions’ - Part I: Developing a Shared Understanding on the Use of Thresholds / Environmental Limits	10/07/2015	Concluded	United Kingdom	ASCOBANS
7th Meeting of the Parties	22/10/2012	Concluded	United Kingdom	ASCOBANS
3rd Meeting of the Parties	26/07/2000	Concluded	United Kingdom	ASCOBANS
6th Meeting of the Advisory Committee	12/04/1999	Concluded	United Kingdom	ASCOBANS
2nd Meeting of the Advisory Committee	29/11/1995	Concluded	United Kingdom	ASCOBANS
1st Meeting of the Advisory Committee	08/03/1995	Concluded	United Kingdom	ASCOBANS

Project	Start date	End date	Implementing Agency	Status	Region
Distribution and relative abundance of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) over Dogger Bank and surrounding waters, Southern North Sea	15/10/2011	30/04/2012	Marine Conservation Research International	Completed
Effects of contaminants on reproduction, Phase II	01/05/2011	30/09/2011	Sinéad Murphy / University of St. Andrews	Completed
Effects of Contaminants on Reproduction in Small Cetaceans	01/01/2009	25/05/2009	Sinéad Murphy / University of St. Andrews	Completed