Title

OSPAR Commission - Protection and conserving the North-East Atlantic and its resources

Date (Creation)

1972-01-01

Citation identifier

968d9ad7-2769-4553-8a44-457d47326e70

Abstract

OSPAR is the mechanism by which 15 Governments & the EU cooperate to protect the marine environment of the North-East Atlantic.

OSPAR started in 1972 with the Oslo Convention against dumping and was broadened to cover land-based sources of marine pollution and the offshore industry by the Paris Convention of 1974. These two conventions were unified, up-dated and extended by the 1992 OSPAR Convention. The new annex on biodiversity and ecosystems was adopted in 1998 to cover non-polluting human activities that can adversely affect the sea.

The fifteen Governments are Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

OSPAR is so named because of the original Oslo and Paris Conventions ("OS" for Oslo and "PAR" for Paris).

OSPAR Data & Information Management System (ODIMS) is a fully featured platform for accessing OSPAR's geospatial maps, data and metadata.

61 Maps and 254 layers regarding:

- Cables and pipelines

- Comprehensive atmospheric monitoring programme

- Discharges of radionuclides from the non-nuclear sectors

- Discharges, spills and emissions from offshore oil and gas installations

- Dumping and placement of wastes or other matter at sea

- Environmental monitoring of radioactive substances

- Fishing for litter

- Vulnerable marine ecosystems

- etc.

Credit

OSPAR Commission

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
OSPAR Commission		secretariat@ospar.org	Local service desk

Mission Atlantic - Case Studies

• Celtic Seas

Mission Atlantic - BODC Parameters

• /Human activities/Cables

• /Human activities/Aquaculture

• /Human activities/Area Management

• /Human activities/Pollution

• /Human activities/Fisheries

• /Human activities/Energy

Mission Atlantic - Resources

• Program and project

Use limitation

CC0 (Creative Commons - Transfer into public domain)

Other legal constraints

If a reference to the data origin is required, though this is not a term for data use, the following form can be followed:

Data Source: OSPAR Data and Information Management System, https://odims.ospar.org/ (add direct link to dataset or metadata)

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

N

S

E

W

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK	https://odims.ospar.org/en/	OSPAR Data & Information Management System
WWW:LINK	https://www.ospar.org/	OSPAR Commission website

Hierarchy level

Initiative

Source

• Intermediate Assessment 2017 - Seabed Litter - Relative number of litter items per square km

Metadata

File identifier

968d9ad7-2769-4553-8a44-457d47326e70

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Initiative

Date stamp

2021-12-08T10:59:49

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139 - SEXTANT

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Ifremer	Sextant	sextant@ifremer.fr	Local service desk