Report of the 16th Session of GESAMP, 1986

The Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine pollution (GESAMP) held its sixteenth session at IMO Headquarters, London from 17-21 March 1986.

  • 1986 #27 (84p.)
  • Author(s): GESAMP
  • Publisher(s): UN
  • Journal Series Reports and Studies

The agenda for the meeting comprised of:

1. Adoption of the Agenda

2. Review of potentially harmful substances.

3. Evaluation of the hazards of harmful substances carried by ships.

4. Interchange of pollutants between the atmosphere and the oceans.

5. Land-sea boundary flux of pollutants.

6. Methodology and guidelines for the assessment of the impact of pollutants on the marine environment.

7. Integrated global ocean monitoring.

8. Coastal modelling.

9. State of the marine environment.

10. Future work programme.

11. Date and place of next session.

12. Other matters.

13. Election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman for the next intersessional period and for the seventeenth session.

14. Consideration and approval of the report of the session.

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