26th Session of the IOC Assembly
IOC-XXVI
Meeting
22 June - 05 July 2011
Location
Organizer & Staff
Participation
ROOM II
UNESCO Headquarters
7 Place de Fontenoy
75007 Paris
France
Organizer & Staff
Organizer
- Dr. Sang-Kyung BYUN
- Mr Nikolai MIKHAILOV
- Dr Savithri NARAYANAN
- Dr David PUGH
- Mr. Julian REYNA MORENO
- Prof Chérif SAMMARI
- Javier VALLADARES
Staff
- Dr Thorkild AARUP
- Justin AHANHANZO
- Mr Bernardo ALIAGA ROSSEL
- Mr Keith ALVERSON
- Mr. Julian BARBIÈRE
- Mr Patrice BONED
- Virginie BONNET
- Forest COLLINS
- Dr. Nick D'ADAMO
- Mr. Tony ELLIOTT
- Mr. Henrik ENEVOLDSEN
- Ms Laurence FERRY
- Dr. Albert FISCHER
- Dr. Luciano FONSECA
- Mrs Irene GAZAGNE
- Dr Thomas GROSS
- Mrs Cornelia HAUKE
- Rejane HERVE-SMADJA
- Ms Elena IASYREVA
- Mrs Ho Hien LAM
- Mlle Christiane LE CONAN
- Dr. Boram LEE
- Mr Deven MOONEESAWMY
- Mr Mika ODIDO
- Mr. Peter PISSIERSSENS
- Ms Simonetta SECCO
- Silvia SERMENO
- Kathy TEDESCO
- Dr. Maciej TELSZEWSKI
- Dr. Cesar TORO
- Mr Luis VALDES
- Dr Wendy WATSON-WRIGHT
- Dr Ulrich WOLF
- Masahiro YAMAMOTO
- Xenia YVINEC
- Mr Wenxi ZHU
Participation
26th Session of the IOC Assembly
Summary
This session of the Assembly marks the official closure of the IOC 50th anniversary. A Drafting Group has been established to prepare the IOC contribution to the Rio+20 process. Full Summary Report Adopted Resolutions: Original draft resolutions are available under each item of the agenda. Elections: The elections of the officers of the Commission and the members of the Executive Council took place during this session of the Assembly in accordance with the technical arrangements appended to the IOC Rules of Procedure (IOC/INF-1166. 2001). Click here for election results.
This session of the Assembly marks the official closure of the IOC 50th anniversary. A Drafting Group has been established to prepare the IOC contribution to the Rio+20 process. Full Summary Report Adopted Resolutions: Original draft resolutions are available under each item of the agenda. Elections: The elections of the officers of the Commission and the members of the Executive Council took place during this session of the Assembly in accordance with the technical arrangements appended to the IOC Rules of Procedure (IOC/INF-1166. 2001). Click here for election results.
Results from the 26th IOC Assembly
The 26th IOC Assembly, the biennial meeting of the governing body of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, took place in Paris from 22 June to 5 July 2011. The Assembly adopted twelve new Resolutions that provide guidance for IOC planning and the upcoming intersessional work of the Commission. In addition to the statutory programme and budget resolution to set the financial framework for the work of the Commission, many transformative resolutions were adopted at the 26th Assembly. Among other issues, the Assembly encouraged the work of IOC/CARIBE to continue. The working group on the IOC/ABE-LOS review was directed to continue, in order to increase the number of responses to the IOC/ABE-LOS questionnaire. IOC Member States adopted a Regional Strategy for Organizational Improvement of the IOC Regional Subsidiary Bodies, given the importance of IOC’s Regional Subsidiary Bodies and IOC Decentralized Offices as mechanisms for the implementation of the Commission’s activities in the regions. The strategy is based on the Secretariat support and the Member States in-kind support for implement regional activities. Member States also approved a statement for the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, to highlight the importance of the ocean as the life support system of Planet Earth and therefore a key element to alleviate poverty, as well as for sustainable development and for the environment. Two new bodies were created: the IOC Sub-Commission for Africa, Including Adjacent Island States unifies the African regional bodies to improve IOC visibility, facilitate coordination among the Member States in the region, and to ensure the efficient implementation of IOC programmes in Africa; and the GOOS Steering Committee, which replaces the GOOS Scientific Steering Committee, and its subsidiary panels on 31 December 2011. The Commission approved, in conjunction with WMO the procedure for the Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology’s (JCOMM), formal adoption of the IOC-WMO Regional Marine Instruments Centres (RMICs) and designated the National Centre of Ocean Standards and Meteorology (NCOSM), Tianjin, China, as an RMIC for the Asia-Pacific Region, and of National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), Mississippi, USA, as an RMIC for North and Central America. The Global Coordination of Early Warning and Mitigation Systems for Tsunamis and Other Sea-Level-Related Hazards received an extensive set of mandates which focused particularly on the need for strengthening the cooperation of Member States and the coordination by the Secretariat. The Assembly accepted the offer of the Government of Flanders, Belgium, to continue hosting the office of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange in Ostend and established an IODE Group of Experts for the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) as well as an IODE Steering Group for OBIS, including two project offices for IODE/OBIS. The Assembly endorsed the report from the Tenth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Harmful Algal Blooms (IPHAB) and approved its recommendations, highlighting the need to increase cooperation with SCOR, IODE and particularly Member States to participate in the HAB mechanisms. A resolution on Data Buoy Vandalism, pointed out that issues related to piracy and vandalism are also issues involving marine scientific research and operational oceanography. In summary, IOC XXVI Assembly emphasized improving the structure of IOC subsidiary bodies, where the major responsibilities of the Commission lie, and postioned the IOC to respond efficiently to the new challenges posed by the global oceanographic community.
Website:
http://www.ioc-unesco.org/iocxxvi
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Report
Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
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IOC-XXVI/3 | Twenty-sixth Session of the IOC Assembly, Paris, 21 June - 5 July 2011 | 13/12/2012 |
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Presentation
Agenda Documents
Background Documents
Agenda | Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
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Agenda | Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
IOC/EC-XLIII/3 | Summary Report of the 43rd Session of the IOC Executive Council, Paris, 8-16 June 2010 | 31/05/2011 |
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IOC/INF-1166 | IOC Rules of Procedure | 23/10/2008 |
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IOC/INF-1148 | IOC Statutes | 20/02/2008 |
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IOC-XXV/3 | Twenty-fifth Session of the IOC Assembly, 16-25 June 2009 | 21/02/2011 |
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Other Documents
Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
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Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
CL-2375 | Invitation to the Twenty-sixth Session of the IOC Assembly, 22 June–5 July 2011, and Forty-fourth Session of the IOC Executive Council, 21 June 2011, UNESCO HQ, Paris | 28/02/2011 |
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