Dates

Title of meetings

6 March 2009

Special Meeting of States Parties to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

16 to 19 March 2009

Eighth round of Informal Consultations of States Parties to the United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement

2 March to
9 April 2009*

*Please note that Friday, 10 April
2009 is an official holiday at the United Nations and observed.

 Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf  -
23^rd session:

• 2 to 20 March 2009 – Technical examination of submissions at the Geographic Information System laboratories and other technical facilities of the Division
• 23 to 27 March 2009 – plenary session of the Commission with full conference services
• 30 March to 3 April 2009 – plenary session of the Commission with full conference services
• 6 to 9 April 2009 – Technical examination of submissions at the Geographic Information System laboratories and other technical facilities of the Division

17 to 19 June 2009

United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process
on Oceans and the Law of the Sea
10^th meeting

22 to 26 June 2009

Meeting of States Parties to the 1982 UN Convention on the
Law of the Sea
19^th meeting

10 August to
11 September 2009*

*Please note that Monday,
7 September 2009 is an official
holiday at the United Nations and observed.

Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf – 24^th session:

• 10 to 21 August 2009  – Technical examination of submissions at the Geographic Information System laboratories and other technical facilities of the Division
• 24 to 28 August 2009 – plenary session of the Commission with full conference services
• 31 August to 4 September 2009 – plenary session of the Commission with full conference services
• 8 to 11 September 2009  – Technical examination of submissions at the Geographic Information System laboratories and other technical facilities of the Division

31 August to 4 September 2009

                Ad hoc working group of the whole to recommend a course of action towards the establishment of a regular process for global reporting and assessment of the state of the marine environment, including socio-economic aspects

15 to 18 September 2009
16 to 20 and 23 November 2009

Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 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, and related instruments

28 September to 2 October 2009

9 to 13 November 2009 **

** 12 November – pm only

Oceans and the law of the sea