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[[Image:OSPAR logo.png|right|thumb|The official logo of the OSPAR Convention]]
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The '''Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic'''<ref name="conv">
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".
[[Image:OSPAR Convention.png|thumb|right|200px|{{legend|#007f00|signatory states}}
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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 22 September
[[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 Celtic Seas, the [[Bay of Biscay|Bay of Biscay/Golfe de Gascogne]] and [[Iberian Peninsula|Iberian waters]], and the [[Atlantic Ocean|Wider Atlantic]].<ref name="conv"/>
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">
In June 2007, OSPAR signatory parties agreed to amend the Convention in order to make mandatory the application of the
==See also==
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