ACCOBAMS Scientific Committee
The Scientific Committee provides scientific advice and information to the Meeting of the Parties or to the Parties through the ACCOBAMS Secretariat.
The Scientific Committee:
a) provides advice to the Meeting of the Parties on scientific and technical matters having a bearing on the implementation of the Agreement, and to individual Parties between sessions, as appropriate, through the Co‐ordination unit of the sub‐region concerned;
b) advises on the guidelines as provided for in Article IV, paragraph 3, assess the reviews prepared in accordance with Annex 2 to this Agreement and formulate recommendations to the Meeting of the Parties relating to their development, contents and implementation;
c) conducts scientific assessments of the conservation status of cetacean populations;
d) advises on the development and co‐ordination of international research and monitoring programmes, and make recommendations to the Meeting of the Parties concerning further research to be carried out;
e) facilitates the exchange of scientific information and of conservation techniques;
f) prepares for each session of the Meeting of the Parties a report of its activities which shall be submitted to the Agreement Secretariat not less than one hundred and twenty days before the session of the Meeting of the Parties and circulated forthwith by the Agreement Secretariat to all Parties;
g) renders timely advice on the exceptions of which it has been informed pursuant to Article II, paragraph 2; and
h) carries out, as may be necessary, other tasks referred to it by the Meeting of the Parties.
The Scientific Committee meets at least twice between two Meetings of the Parties.
Link to ACCOBAMS Scientific Committee Reports
Composition of the 2023-2025 ACCOBAMS Scientific Committee
| Members nominated by Organisations (according to Article 2 of Annex of Resolution 8.3) | ||
| CIESM nominated Members | Loriane MENDEZ |  |
| Ayaka Amaha OZTÜRK |  | |
| Simone PANIGADA |  | |
| IUCN nominated Members | Rimel BENMESSAOUD |  |
| Léa DAVID | | |
| Maria Cristina FOSSI | | |
| Simone PANIGADA | | |
| CMS nominated Member | Mark SIMMONDS | |
| IWC nominated Member | Greg DONOVAN | |
| Regional Representatives (according to Article 2 of Annex of Resolution 8.3) | ||
| Western region & contiguous Atlantic area | Souad LAMOUTI | |
| Giancarlo LAURIANO | | |
| Mohamed Naoufal TAMSOURI |  | |
| Central region | Caterina FORTUNA | |
| Tilen GENOV |  | |
| Drasko HOLCER | | |
| Eastern region | Anastasia KOMNENOU | |
| Céline MAHFOUZ |  | |
| Yianna SAMUEL |  | |
| Black Sea region | Pavel GOL’DIN |  |
| Dimitar POPOV |  | |
| Arda Mehmet TONAY |  | |