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COORDINATING COMMITTEE ON  HYDROMETEOROLOGY AND  POLLUTION MONITORING OF THE CASPIAN SEA (CASPCOM)
11th SESSION
Astrakhan,  the Russian Federation, 2006

TENTATIVE AGENDA AND WORKING HOURS

 

 

 

25 October 2006

9.00-9.30

 

Registration of the participants

 

 

 

9.30-10.40

1.

Opening of the 11th Session of  CASPCOM

 

1.1.

Official welcome by Mr. A. Bedritskii, the CASPCOM Chairman, Head of Roshydromet

 

1.2.

 Greetings from:

  1. representative of the Astrakhan Region Administration
  2. representative of the World Meteorological Organization
  3. marine industry companies working in  the Caspian Sea

 

1.3.

Adoption of the agenda

 

1.4

Establishment of the editing group for drafting session recommendations

10.40-11.00

 

Coffee break

 

Meeting 1.                11.00-13.00

 

2.

Report on  the CASPCOM activities and implementation of the CASPCOM-10 recommendations  by the  CASPCOM Chairman

 

 

3.

National activities towards solving   high priority problems  in the field of  hydrometeorology and pollution monitoring   of the Caspian Sea (reports by the heads of delegations)

 

3.1.

Hydrometeorological Service  of the Azerbaijan Republic

 

3.2.

Meteorological Organization of  the Islamic Republic of Iran

 

3.3.

Republican State Enterprise  «Kazhydromet», Republic of Kazakhstan

 

3.4.

Roshydromet, the Russian Federation.

 

3.5.

Turkmenhydromet, Turkmenistan.

 

3.6.

Discussions on items 2 and 3 of the agenda

13.00-15.00

 

Lunch Break

 


Meeting  2               15.00-18.00     

 

15.00 –16.30

4.           

Towards better international cooperation in the field of hydrometeorology and environment pollution monitoring  in the Caspian Sea region

 

4.1.

On the results of implementation of the CASPCOM Action Plan for 2004 - 2006  and report by CASPAC Coordinator  on the 2005-2006 activities (S. Monakhov, CASPAS Coordinator)

 

4.2.

On the course of implementation of the Framework Convention for the  Protection of the  Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea including  drafting of protocols (V. Miroshnichenko, CEP Coordinating Unit, A. Korshenko, SOI Roshydromet)

16.30-17.00

 

Coffee break

17.00-18.00

4.3.

On cooperation with Caspian Environment Program in October 2005 – October 2006 including implementation of the join projects (A. Korshenko, SOI of Roshydromet; S. Monakhov, CASPAS Coordinator; V. Miroshnichenko , CEP Coordination Unit)

 

 

 

 

 

26 October

Meeting 3.     9.00-13.00

9.00-11.00

5.

Draft “Agreement on cooperation of the Caspian states in the field of hydrometeorology of the Caspian Sea”

 

5.1

Meeting of experts of the  NMHSs and MFAs of the Caspian states on  the   DRAFT AGREEMENT BETWEEN  CASPIAN STATES  ON COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY  AND ENVIROMENTAL MONITORING
on  11 January 2006 in Moscow (V. Martischenko, Roshydromet)

 

 

5.2

The status of the  national agreeing upon of the draft Agreement in the Caspian states (information by the heads of delegations)

 11.00-11.15

 

Coffee break

11.15-13.00

 

 

 

6.

CASPCOM Working Group on hydrodynamic modeling  and exchange of information on the hydrometeorological regime of the Caspian Sea – the  results of  the expert workshop  of NHMS and WMO on 23-24 October 2006 in Astrakhan (S. Monakhov, CASPAS Coordinator; G. Kortchev, Director of a WMO Department)

 

7.

Adoption of    recommendations by the 11th Session of CASPCOM (Chairman of the editing group)

 

8.

Elections of the CASPCOM Chairman and Vice-Chairman

 

9.

Date and place of    12th  Session  of CASPCOM

 

10.

Closure of the 11th Session   of CASPCOM