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[[Image:OSPAR logo.png|right|thumb|The official logo of the OSPAR Convention]]
[[Image:OSPAR logo.png|right|thumb|The official logo of the OSPAR Convention]]The [http://www.ospar.org/html_documents/ospar/html/OSPAR_Convention_e_updated_text_2007.pdf '''Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic'''] or '''OSPAR Convention''' is the current [[legislation|legislative]] instrument regulating international cooperation on environmental protection in the [[Atlantic Ocean|North-East Atlantic]]. It combines and up-dates the 1972 [[Oslo Convention]] on dumping waste at sea and the 1974 Paris Convention on land-based sources of marine pollution. Work carried out under the convention is managed by the '''OSPAR Commission''', which is made up of representatives of the [[Government]]s of the 15 signatory nations, and representatives of the [[European Commission]], representing the [[European Union]].▼
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The OSPAR Convention was concluded at [[Paris]] on 22 September 1992.<ref name="conv"/> It combines and up-dates the 1972 [[Oslo Convention]] on dumping waste at sea and the 1974 Paris Convention on land-based sources of marine pollution. The name is likewise a combination of "Oslo" and "Paris".
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==History==
The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic was opened for signature at the [[Minister (government)|Ministerial Meeting]] of the Oslo and Paris Commissions in [[Paris]] on
[[Image:OSPAR Commission area map.svg|right|250px|Map of the OSPAR area]]
The first Ministerial Meeting of the OSPAR Commission at [[Sintra]], Portugal, in 1998 adopted Annex V to the Convention, extending the cooperation of the signatory parties to cover ''"all human activities that might adversely affect the marine environment of the North East Atlantic"''.<ref name="conv"/> Nevertheless, programmes and measures cannot be adopted under the Convention on questions relating to fisheries management, which are currently coordinated by European nations in the north east Atlantic and [[North Sea]] by the [[International Council for the Exploration of the Sea]] (ICES). The OSPAR convention now regulates European standards on [[biodiversity|marine biodiversity]], [[eutrophication]], the release of [[pollution|hazardous]] and [[radioactive decay|radioactive]] substances into the seas, the [[North Sea oil|offshore oil and gas industry]] and baseline monitoring of environmental conditions.<ref name="conv"/>
In 2000, the OSPAR Commission published a comprehensive report on the quality of the marine environment of the North-East Atlantic. This was supported by five smaller reports on the different parts of the OSPAR maritime area –the [[Arctic Ocean|Arctic]], the Greater [[North Sea]], the
According to the [[:fr :Association pour le contrôle de la radioactivité dans l'Ouest]], if tritium and iodine 129 discharges from the [[La Hague site]] into the [[Alderney Race]] do not diminish significantly, it will be difficult to achieve the objective of zero radioelement concentrations in the North Atlantic by 2020.<ref name="acro">{{Cite web|url= http://www.acro.eu.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/rad_lit13.pdf |title= Discharges of radioactive elements |website= acro.eu.org |date= 22 April 2013}}</ref>
In June 2007, OSPAR signatory parties agreed to amend the Convention in order to make mandatory the application of the treaty in the case of geological storage of [[carbonic anhydride|CO<sub>2</sub>]]. The treaty allows [[carbon capture and storage]] of carbonic anhydride from land to an offshore marine site through a [[petroleum pipeline|pipeline]] that is not required to pass near [[offshore platform]]s for [[oil exploration|oil]] and [[gas exploration]].<ref>{{cite journal|first1=Tim |last1=Dixon|first2= Andy|last2= Greaves|first3= Oyvind|last3=Christophersen|first4=Chris|last4= Vivian|first5=Jolyon|last5= Thomson|title=International marine regulation of CO2 geological storage. Developments and implications of London and OSPAR|journal=Energy Procedia|volume=1|issue=1|doi=10.1016/j.egypro.2009.02.268|date=February 1, 2009|pages=4507|oclc=4934390933|issn=1876-6102|doi-access=free}}</ref>
==See also==
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==External links==
*[http://www.ospar.org/content/content.asp?menu=01481200000000_000000_000000 OSPAR Convention]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130517192830/http://www.ospar.org/html_documents/ospar/html/ospar_convention_e_updated_text_2007.pdf Text].
*[http://www.ospar.org/content/content.asp?menu=01481200000026_000000_000000 Ratifications].
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