In accordance with the Rules of Procedure, Members are invited to attend the Forty-third Meetings of the Commission and the Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, which will be held in Hobart, Australia. The Scientific Committee will meet from 14 to 18 October, the Commission from 14 to 25 October 2024.

The venue for these meetings is the CCAMLR Headquarters, located at 181 Macquarie Street, Hobart, Australia.

Information for delegates is available from the CCAMLR-43 and SC-CAMLR-43 pages on the CCAMLR website, which includes the following:

• agendas
• meeting registration
• information for delegates (including visa information)
• meeting documents as they become available, including a zip file containing all documents with index (please remember to refresh your browser regularly to see all uploaded documents).

Registration

Online registration is now available for CCAMLR-43 and SC-CAMLR-43. To assist with meeting logistics, please complete registration by 27 September 2024.

The meetings will be in person. Proceedings will also be streamed as an audience-only service to registered delegates. Delegates will be requested to indicate during online registration whether they will be present in person in Hobart.

The online registration process includes a request for a passport-style photo, which is required to create your CCAMLR ID card. Intending participants are requested to supply a recent picture, either by uploading it to their web profile on the CCAMLR website, or by sending it via email to ccamlr@ccamlr.org. To upload a photo to your web profile, go to your User profile, select the edit tab and scroll down to the photo field.

Agendas and Schedule

• Commission’s Preliminary Annotated Agenda

In consultation with the Chair of the Commission, Mr Vitalii Tsymbaliuk (Ukraine), the preliminary agenda for CCAMLR-43 has been prepared in accordance with Rule 15 of the Commission’s Rules of Procedure.

The Commission will as usual adopt the agendas for SCIC and SCAF at the start of its meeting. Preliminary agendas for SCIC and SCAF have been developed in consultation with the Chair of SCIC and the Chair of the Commission. 

• Scientific Committee’s Preliminary Annotated Agenda

In consultation with the Chair of the Scientific Committee, Dr César Cárdenas (Chile), the preliminary agenda for SC-CAMLR-43 has been prepared in accordance with Rule 5 of the Scientific Committee’s Rules of Procedure.

Comments on these agendas under Rule 16 are due by 10 August 2024.

The Chairs of the Commission and the Scientific Committee, in consultation with the Chair of the Standing Committee for Implementation and Compliance (SCIC) and the Secretariat, have produced the accompanying preliminary schedule for CCAMLR-43 and SC-CAMLR-43:

• Preliminary Schedule

The Chairs of the Commission and the Scientific Committee provide the following supplementary information and guidance in relation to the preliminary schedule:

1. A meeting for Commission Heads of Delegation will be held at the Commission’s Headquarters on at 16h00 on Sunday 13 October. Commissioners may elect to be accompanied by their Scientific Committee Representative plus one adviser. A meeting of Representatives of the Scientific Committee will be held immediately after the Commission Heads of Delegation meeting concludes.
2. The Commission will delegate agenda items on ‘Implementation and Compliance’ and ‘Administration and Finance’ of its agenda to SCIC and SCAF respectively. The webpage for the CCAMLR-43 meeting will identify meeting documents to be considered under the agenda items delegated to SCIC and SCAF, and the reports from the meetings of these two committees will be annexed to the Commission’s report.

Changes to the schedule may be proposed to the Chairs at any time prior to the opening of the meetings.