General Assembly and its Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole

The Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole on the Regular Process, established in 2008, oversees and guides the Regular Process. It is led by two Co-Chairs, one from a developing and one from a developed country. The Working Group meets at United Nations Headquarters to adopt recommendations to the General Assembly. Meetings of the Working Group are generally held once or twice per year, depending on workload. Informal open meetings have also been held to facilitate broader discussion on some issues. The Bureau of the Working Group puts into practice the decisions and guidance of the Working Group during the intersessional period, including by providing oversight of the delivery of the programme of work for the third cycle of the Regular Process.

Meetings of the Working Group

09 أكتوبر 2025 to 10 أكتوبر 2025
04 سبتمبر 2024 to 05 سبتمبر 2024
15 مارس 2024
06 سبتمبر 2023 to 02 أكتوبر 2023
27 مارس 2023 to 28 مارس 2023
01 نوفمبر 2022 to 02 نوفمبر 2022
21 مارس 2022 to 01 سبتمبر 2022
14 يوليو 2021 to 28 سبتمبر 2021
06 نوفمبر 2020 to 23 نوفمبر 2020
09 سبتمبر 2020 to 05 أكتوبر 2020
29 يوليو 2019 to 30 يوليو 2019
23 أغسطس 2018 to 24 أغسطس 2018
28 فبراير 2018 to 01 مارس 2018
06 سبتمبر 2017 to 08 سبتمبر 2017
17 أبريل 2017 to 18 أبريل 2017
03 أغسطس 2016 to 09 أغسطس 2016
08 سبتمبر 2015 to 11 سبتمبر 2015
31 مارس 2014
22 أبريل 2013 to 26 أبريل 2013

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29 يوليو 2025

From 28 July to 6 August 2025, the Group of Experts for the third cycle of the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including socioeconomic aspects, are convening at the World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden hosted by WMU - Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute team to finalize draft 2 of the third World Ocean Assessment.

29 مايو 2025

Join us on 12 June 2025 for the Regular Process side event at UNOC 3! "Ocean Science and Its Policy Interface: from Knowledge to Sustainable Ocean Solutions"
Strengthening the science-policy interface through the Regular Process and its World Ocean Assessments to support the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030).

 

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