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| 1 | Opening of the Session |
| 1.1 | Opening |
| 1.2 | Adoptation of the agenda |
| 1.3 | Working arrangements |
| 2 | Reports |
| 2.1 | Guidance and Requirements from JCOMM and WMO-IOC |
| 2.2 | Report by the Chairperson of the ETSI |
| 2.3 | Reports on national and regional practices |
| 2.3.1 | Reports by the Members of the ETSI |
| 2.3.2 | BSIM, EIS, NAIS, IICWG reports |
| 3 | Marine Safety Information (MSI) related to sea ice |
| 3.1 | Report by the ETMSS chairperson including the Arctic METAREAs: coordinators reports and exchange issues |
| 3.2 | IHO Report on the use of S100/S101 within the sea ice information / e-Navigation |
| 3.3 | Sea Ice MSI in the sub- and non-Arctic METAREAs and Antarctic |
| 3.4 | Role of ice services in Search and Rescue (SAR) |
| 3.5 | Report on Polar Code development |
| 3.6 | Guidelines for sea ice MSI in WMO manuals and guides |
| 3.6.1 | Review and update of requirements for sea ice MSI |
| 3.6.2 | Review of WMO-No. 471 and WMO-No. 558. |
| 4 | Sea ice climatology (13th session of the Steering Group for the GDSIDB project) |
| 4.1 | Reports |
| 4.1.1 | Sea-Ice Climatology in the context of CMOC |
| 4.1.2 | Reports of the GDSIDB centers (AARI and NSIDC) and the ice services |
| 4.2 | Review of the WMO sea ice guidance material related to sea ice climatology |
| 4.3 | Practices of sea ice historical data processing |
| 4.4 | Review of sea ice and icebergs products based on GDSIDB data |
| 4.5 | Proposals for new contributions to the GDSIDB from Member States |
| 5 | WMO sea ice guidance material |
| 5.1 | Review of SIGRID-3 version 3 (WMO/TD-No.1214) |
| 5.2 | Review of sea ice in Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC) standards |
| 5.2.1 | “Ice Objects Catalogue” version 5.2 |
| 5.2.2 | “Ice in ECDIS” (S-107) specification |
| 5.2.3 | “Ice chart color standard” (WMO/TD-No.1215) |
| 5.3 | Review of “Sea ice nomenclature”, vol. I, II, III (WMO-No. 259) |
| 5.4 | Update to “Sea ice services in the World” (WMO-No. 574) |
| 5.5 | Review of coding tables related to sea ice in WMO Manual on Codes (WMO–No.306) |
| 5.6 | New publications (“Old ice in summer”, “Manual for sea-ice observers”, etc) |
| 5.7 | Harmonization and management issues |
| 6 | Sea ice information systems and product delivery |
| 6.1 | Status and perspectives of the Ice integrating portals (Ice Logistics Portal, Polarview, etc) |
| 6.2 | Sea ice in WIS |
| 6.3 | Assimilation of ice products in NWP |
| 6.4 | Vision and strategy for inter-operability and integration |
| 7 | Sea ice training and CB |
| 7.1 | Ice analyst workshop activity |
| 7.1.1 | Themes and agenda of the IAW-4 in June 2014 |
| 7.2 | Training material (COMET, etc) |
| 8 | Requirements for sea ice information |
| 8.1 | Updates for sea ice in the WMO Rolling Requirements Review |
| 8.2 | JCOMM Questionnaire and user feedback |
| 9 | Collaboration and Partnership |
| 9.1 | Relations to IICWG and JCOMM bodies |
| 9.2 | Polar Initiative activities (EC-PORS, GCW, Cryonet, SAON) |
| 9.3 | Relations to other WMO/IOC and International programmes |
| 10 | ETSI future activities and working plan for the current intersessional period |
| 11 | Date and place of the next session |
| 12 | Other issues |
| 13 | Closure of the session |