OSPAR Commission
The Aspect
Additional Info
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| acronym | OSPAR |
| activities | <p>OSPAR is the mechanism by which 15 Governments & the EU cooperate to protect the marine environment of the North-East Atlantic.</p><p>OSPAR started in 1972 with the Oslo Convention against dumping and was broadened to cover land-based sources of marine pollution and the offshore industry by the Paris Convention of 1974. These two conventions were unified, up-dated and extended by the 1992 OSPAR Convention. The new annex on biodiversity and ecosystems was adopted in 1998 to cover non-polluting human activities that can adversely affect the sea.</p><p>The fifteen Governments are Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.</p><p>OSPAR is so named because of the original Oslo and Paris Conventions ("OS" for Oslo and "PAR" for Paris).</p><div>||ADU||</div> |
| country | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| country_code | 222 |
| data_quality | ocean_expert_full |
| data_source | obis_oceanexpert |
| secretariat@ospar.org | |
| institution_type | International / Intergovernmental |
| obis_institution_code | |
| ocean_expert_id | 21369 |
| ocean_expert_updated | 2024-10-04T00:00:00+02:00 |
| phone | +44 (0) 20 7430 5200 |
| sync_date | 2026-02-19 |
| website | https://www.ospar.org/ |