Report of the 17th Session of GESAMP, 1987

The Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine pollution (GESAMP) held its seventeenth session at FAO Headquarters, Rome from 30 March - 3 April 1987.

  • 1987 #31 (48p.)
  • Author(s): GESAMP
  • Publisher(s): FAO
  • Journal Series Reports and Studies

The agenda for the meeting comprised of:

1. Adoption of the Agenda

2. Review of potentially harmful substances (Working Group 13)

3. Evaluation of the hazards of harmful substances carried by ships (Working Group 1)

4. Interchange of pollutants between the atmosphere and the oceans (Working Group 14)

5. Land-sea boundary flux of pollutants (Working Group 22)

6. Integrated global ocean monitoring (Working Group 24)

7. Coastal Modelling (Working Group 25)

8. State of the marine environment (Working Group 26)

9. Long-term econological consequences of low-level contamination of the marine environment (Working Group 27)

10. Future work programme.

11. Date and place of next sessino.

12. Other matters.

13. Election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman for the next intersessional period and for the seventeenth sessino.

14. Consideration and approval of the report of the session.

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