Intergovernmental Conference on 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 (General Assembly resolution 72/249)

Statements delivered at the second session

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Date ↓
Topic 
Australia  1 April 2019 Strategic environmental assessments (SEA)
Australia  3 April 2019 Institutional Arrangements
Australia 29 March 2019 Relationship to measures under relevant instruments, frameworks and bodies
Australia 27 March 2019 4.3 Process in relation to area-based management tools, including marine protected areas
4.3.1 Identification of areas
Australia 28 March 2019 4.3 Process in relation to area-based management tools, including marine protected areas
4.3.2 Designation process
Bangladesh  4 April 2019 Intervention on paragraph 2.1.
Chile 25 March 2019 General Statement
Colombia   General Statement
Colombia   Marine Genetic Resources
Ecuador  4 April 2019 4.3 Process in relation to area-based management tools, including marine protected areas
4.3.2 Designation process
Ecuador  5 April 2019 General Statement
EU 25 March 2019 General Statement
EU 27 March 2019 Terms raised in relation to measures such as area-based management tools, including marine protected areas
Fiji 25 March 2019 General Statement
Fiji  5 April 2019 General Statement
Holy See 25 March 2019 General Statement
Iceland   ABMTs - Part 4.3 - Process in relation to area-based management tools, including marine protected areas (item 6)
Iceland  2 April 2019 Environmental Impact Assessments – Parts 5.1 and 5.2 (item 6)
Iceland 27 March 2019 Marine Genetic Resources, including questions on the sharing of benefits (under item 6)
Japan 27 March 2019 Marine Genetic Resources MGR, including question on the sharing
Japan 29 March 2019 ABMT Area Based Management Tools
Japan  5 April 2019 Statement regarding Scope of application and others
Mexico  5 April 2019 General Statement
Micronesia 25 March 2019 General Statement
Micronesia  1 April 2019 Item 6: Informal Working Group on Environmental Impact Assessments (point 5.6)
Micronesia  1 April 2019 Item 6: Informal Working Group on Environmental Impact Assessments (point 5.4)
Morocco 25 March 2019 General Statement
Nauru   MGRs - Marine Genetic Resources
New Zealand   4.3.2 Designation Process
New Zealand  5 April 2019 Cross cutting issues
New Zealand  3 April 2019 Capacity building and transfer of marine technology
6 Chapeau and 6.1 Objectives
New Zealand  4 April 2019 Capacity building and transfer of marine technology
6.2 Types and Modalities
New Zealand  4 April 2019 Cross Cutting issues
New Zealand  1 April 2019 Environmental Impact Assessment
New Zealand 29 March 2019 ABMTs Area Based Management Tools
New Zealand 27 March 2019 MGRs - Marine Genetic Resources
Palestine 25 March 2019 General Statement
Palestine  5 April 2019 On the preparation of the President's draft IBLI text-based document
Palestine   Marine genetic resources, including questions on the sharing of benefits
Palestine   Measures such as area-based management tools, including marine protected areas
Paraguay 25 March 2019 General Statement
Peru  2 April 2019 Capacity building and transfer of marine technology
Philippines 28 March 2019 4.3 Process in relation to area-based management tools, including marine protected areas
Philippines  1 April 2019 5.3 Activities for which an environmental impact assessment is required
Philippines  2 April 2019 5.2 Relationship to environmental impact assessment processes under relevant instruments, frameworks and bodies
Philippines  3 April 2019 IV. Institutional Arrangements
Philippines  4 April 2019 Definition of terms
Senegal  4 April 2019 Capacity building and transfer of marine technology
Senegal 27 March 2019 Capacity building and transfer of marine technology
Seychelles 28 March 2019 Item 6- Informal Working Group on Area Based Management Tools; including Marine Protected Areas
Singapore  4 April 2019 Clearing-house mechanism
Singapore  2 April 2019 5.2 Relationship to EIAs under relevant instruments, frameworks and bodies
Singapore  3 April 2019 Intervention on institutional arrangements
Singapore 27 March 2019 MGRs - Marine Genetic Resources
Solomon Islands  2 April 2019 5. Environmental impact assessments
Sri Lanka  1 April 2019 5.5 Content of Environmental Impact Assessment Reports
Sudan 25 March 2019 General Statement
Tuvalu  3 April 2019 6. Capacity-building and the transfer of marine technology
Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI) 27 March 2019 Marine Genetic Resources, agenda item 6
3.1. Scope and 3.2. Access
Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI) 29 March 2019 Measures such as area-based management tools, including marine protected areas
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)  2 April 2019 Capacity building and transfer of marine technology in particular
6.2 Modalities
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)   Agenda Item 5
High Seas Alliance   3 April 2019 Cross-cutting
High Seas Alliance   5 April 2019 General Statement
International Council of Environmental Law (ICEL) 25 March 2019 General Statement
International Council of Environmental Law (ICEL) 26 March 2019 Item 6: marine genetic resources, including the question of sharing benefits (3.2.2)
International Council of Environmental Law (ICEL) 27 March 2019 Item 6: area-based management tools, including marine protected areas (4.3.1)
International Council of Environmental Law (ICEL)  3 April 2019 Item 6: Capacity building and technology transfer (6.3 and 6.4)
International Council of Environmental Law (ICEL)  5 April 2019 Item 6: Cross-cutting Issues
International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC)  5 April 2019 Objectives, Principles, and Relationship with UNCLOS 
International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC)  3 April 2019 institutional arrangements
International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC)  1 April 2019 Section 5.5 pertaining to the content of EIA reports
International Maritime Organization (IMO)   Item 6 – Area Based Management Tools
International Seabed Authority 25 March 2019 General Statement
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO  2 April 2019 Capacity development and transfer of marine technology
(6.2 Types of and modalities for capacity-building and transfer of marine technology)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO   Agenda item 5: General exchange of views
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 26 March 2019 Agenda Item 6: Marine Genetic Resources
North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC)  3 April 2019 Institutional Arrangements
OSPAR Commission  4 April 2019 Area Based Management Tools
Pew Charitable Trusts 27 March 2019 Agenda Item 6
4.3.1 Identification of Areas
Pacific Small Island Developing States 27 March 2019 Marine genetic resources, including questions on the sharing of benefits
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)   Item 6: Consideration of the subject matter referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2
of General Assembly resolution 72/249 Measures such as area-based management tools,
including marine protected areas Measures such as Area-based Management Tools, including Marine Protected Areas – issues 4.2
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)   Item 6: Consideration of the subject matter referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2
of General Assembly resolution 72/249 Capacity building and technology transfer
item 6.2 Types of and modalities for capacity-building and transfer of marine technology
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)  3 April 2019 Institutional arrangements
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)  2 April 2019 5.3 Activities for which an environmental impact assessment is required
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)  1 April 2019 5.7 Strategic Environmental Assessments