ACAP releases information for its Seventh Meeting of Parties, scheduled to be held in Hobart, Australia in May next year

Globally Near Threatened Shy Albatrosses Thalassarche cauta, a Tasmanian endemic, on Mewstone; photograph by Jaimie Cleeland

The Seventh Session of the ACAP Meeting of the Parties (MoP7), hosted by Australia, is scheduled to be held in Hobart, Tasmania, from 9 to 13 May 2022.  However, if restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic preclude holding the meeting in person then MoP7 will be held as a virtual meeting, with Australia remaining as host and Chair.

The meeting’s First Circular, released last week in ACAP’s three official languages of English, French and Spanish, gives key dates for notification of proposed amendments to the Agreement, circulation of meeting reports, submission of working documents and information papers, and for applications by entities to attend MoP7 as an international or non-international observer.  The circular also includes a provisional agenda for the meeting, which includes hearing a report from the Twelfth Meeting of ACAP’s Advisory Committee (AC12), itself reflecting reports from its Seabird Bycatch (SBWG10) and Population and Conservation Status (PaCSWG6) Working Groups, held over August/September this year.

A further MoP7 Circular will be sent to Parties and participants after 2 January 2022  to give additional details about the meeting arrangements.  In the case of a virtual meeting, ad hoc guidelines will be proposed for adoption by ACAP Parties to take account of circumstances not envisaged in the MoP Rules of Procedure.

ACAP Secretariat, 06 December 2021