• Adopted decisions and resolutions 
• Results of the IOC elections 2023
• Narrative Summary Report  (all items)
• Record of Delegations' interventions (informational Annex)
• Final List of Participants (IOC/A-32/LP)

*New*: Please click here to obtain a zip folder with all IOC-32 Working Documents in all working languages.

Documents published during the Session

• List of Participants: Third draft 28 June 2023 20.00 hrs (IOC/A-32/LP Draft3)

Friday 30 June

• Adopted decisions and resolutions 

Thursday 29 June

• Draft Resolution: Governance, Programming and Budgeting Matters of the Commission (A-32/DR.[6.4])

• Draft Summary Report Part 1 (items 1, 2.1-2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3)

Tuesday 27 June

• Revised List of Candidates for elections (IOC/A-32/NOM/WP4)  |  27 June 2023 at 13.00 hrs CEST

• Draft Resolution: Improving Climate Observations (A-32/DR.[4.10])

Monday 26 June

• Draft Resolution: Establishment of an IOC Sub-Commission for the Central Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO) (A-32/DR.[4.5])

Friday 23 June

• Draft Resolution: Implementation of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science For Sustainable Development (2021–2030) (A-32/DR.[4.12])

• List of Candidates for Election (IOC/A-32/NOM/WP3) | 23 June 2023 at 18.00 hrs CEST

• Statement of the IOC Chairperson on the occasion of the 32nd Assembly

Thursday 22 June

• List of Candidates for Election (IOC/A-32/NOM/WP2) | 22 June 2023 at 18.00 hrs CEST

Wednesday 21 June

• List of Candidates for Election (IOC/A-32/NOM/WP1) | 21 June 2023

Tuesday 20 June

• Summary Report (IOC/EC-56/SR)
• Report of the Chairperson of the IOC Intersessional Financial Advisory Group (2023) (IOC/A-32/6.2.Doc(2))

The Assembly session will be preceded by the 56th session of the Executive Council acting as the steering committee for the Assembly. 

The core document for the Assembly is the Provisional Action Paper.  The Action Paper provides the information necessary for effective participation in the discussion of the agenda items. This information includes: (i) identification of relevant documentation; (ii) identification, under each substantive agenda item, of the issue before the Assembly and the expected decision or draft resolution when available to date; (iii) background information (if the relevant background includes a separate document, it is issued as a working document). The session is paperless. 

Register to the session! 

The elections of the Officers of the Commission and the members of the Executive Council will take place during this session of the Assembly in accordance with the technical arrangements appended to the IOC Rules of Procedure. Candidatures must reach the IOC Secretariat at latest two working days before the day of the elections scheduled on Wednesday 28 June 2023. Find more information on the elections page. 

In addition to the formal plenary discussion, an Ocean Science Day (OSD) is organised on 22 June to discuss current challenges in ocean science, potentially with a wider audience. The two main items of OSD will be a discussion of opportunities and challenges for adaptation and mitigation to ocean change, preceded by a session highlighting the existing contributions of IOC to the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, and a dialogue on the perspectives, benefits and challenges for future increased contributions by IOC programmes and regional subsidiary bodies to the Decade.

For more detail see below the official schedule of work and the dynamic schedule of meetings and side events (ckick on the event to see detail). You may also download here a portable calendar of IOC-32 Side Events.

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