The Sixth CEARAC Focal Points Meeting

Meeting Report

The Sixth CEARAC Focal Points Meeting was held on the 6th and 8th of March 2008 in Toyama, Japan. About 20 experts and authorities including the members of FPM, representatives of NOWPAP RACs and others participated in the meeting.
At first, the Director of CEARAC reported the implementation and expenditure of CEARAC activities for the 2006-2007 biennium.
Following this report, the workplan and budget of CEARAC activities for the 2008-2009 biennium, which were approved at the 12th NOWPAP IGM, were explained. The workplan included 7 proposals of new activities: 2 workplans for WG3, 2 workplans for WG4, 1 workplan for Joint WG3/4, oil spill monitoring and RAP MALI respectively. The meeting requested some changes (such as adding a new chapter in HAB Case Studies) during discussion.
During the entire meeting, further cooperation between CEARAC and relevant regional organizations and projects were emphasized by the participants, and CEARAC was asked to take every opportunity to develop more communications and information sharing means with others.

See Report of Sixth NOWPAP CEARAC Focal Points Meeting.

Report	Report of the Sixth NOWPAP CEARAC Focal Points Meeting
Annex I	List of Participants for the Sixth NOWPAP CEARAC Focal Points Meeting
Annex II	List of Documents for the Sixth NOWPAP CEARAC Focal Points Meeting
Annex III	Agenda for the Sixth NOWPAP CEARAC Focal Points Meeting
Annex III-1	Annotated Provisional Agenda
Annex IV	Report of the Regional Coordinating Unit (RCU) on the implementation of the Northwest Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP)
Annex V	Report on implementation and expenditure of CEARAC activities for the 2006-2007 biennium
Annex VI	Revision of the proposed workplan and budget of CEARAC activities for the 2008-2009 biennium
Annex VII	Workplan and budget for HAB Case Studies
Annex VIII	Workplan and budget for development of HAB Integrated Website
Annex IX	Workplan and budget for development of educational materials for utilization of remote sensing data for marine environment conservation
Annex X	Workplan and budget for the second NOWPAP training course on remote sensing data analysis
Annex XI	Workplan and budget for development of procedures for assessment of eutrophication status including evaluation of land based sources of nutrients for the NOWPAP Region
Annex XII	Workplan and budget for updating and modification of website on oil spill monitoring
Annex XIII	Workplan and budget for Marine Litter Activities based on RAP MALI
Annex XIV	List of CEARAC Focal Points
Appendix	Appendix