2024 Annual Report to the Scientific Committee of CCAMLR

This paper provides the Committee for Environmental Protection’s (CEP) annual report to the Scientific Committee of CAMLR (SC-CAMLR) on activities relevant to the work of SC-CAMLR. The 2024 CEP meeting was held in Kochi, India, May 20-24, 2024. Cooperation between SC-CAMLR and the CEP has been steadily increasing to the mutual benefit of both. In order to avoid duplicate reporting between the two committees and following discussions between the Chairs of the CEP and SC-CAMLR, the report of the CEP meeting is presented to SC-CAMLR by theCEP Observer to SC-CAMLR and the report of the meeting of SC-CAMLR is presented to the CEP by the SC-CAMLR observer to the CEP. An agreed standard reporting template, to be routinely followed by both committees, has also clarified and simplified the reciprocal reporting.