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March 2008 -The 8th Meeting of the Technical
Committee of AEWA took place at the UN Premises in Bonn,
Germany from 3-5 March 2008. The meeting brought together
regional representatives, experts and observers from across
the AEWA region and was the final gathering of the Committee
before the 4th session of the Meeting of the
Parties (MOP4) – scheduled to take place in September
in Antananarivo, Madagascar.
The meeting's plenary sessions were complemented
by a series of evening workshops. Over the course of three
days the TC reviewed and signed off several international
reviews required by paragraph 7.4 of the Action Plan covering
a variety of waterbird conservation issues and drafted and
approved a total of 10 resolutions for further submission
to the Standing Committee and MOP4.
The TC also agreed on a time frame for
the finalisation of seven additional resolutions and reviewed
a number of possible amendments to the AEWA Action Plan.
The Committee suggested a revision of the frequency of international
reviews as described in paragraph 7.5 of the Action Plan
and came up with suggestions to add new paragraphs addressing
conservation measures for waterbirds in the marine environment.
The Technical Committee also considered
priority activities for the following triennium, reviewed
the definition and guidance for the application of two Table
1 criteria and approved an updated list of International
Implementation Priorities for 2009-2011.
The 8th AEWA TC Meeting was the last one
for six members of the Committee, having ably served for
the last nine years. Amongst them are the Chair of the TC,
Mr. Yousoof Mungroo (Regional Representative for Southern
Africa), Mr. Jérôme Mokoko (Regional Representative
for Central Africa) and Mr. Olivier Biber (Regional Representative
for Northern and South-western Europe) as well as the three
thematic experts – Ms. Rachelle Adam (Environmental
Law), Mr. Preben Clausen (Game Management) and Mr. Elijah
Danso (Rural Economics). In his closing speech, the Executive
Secretary, Mr. Bert Lenten, thanked the six outgoing members
for their dedicated work and contribution to the Agreement
and asked them to continue supporting AEWA and to act as
ambassadors for the Agreement.
Further Information:
Snapshots from the Meeting
All seven international reviews will be
made available on the AEWA website shortly.
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