Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole on the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects

This will be the sixth meeting of the ‘Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole on the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects’ and the end of the first cycle of the Regular Process, culminating in the issuance of the First Global Integrated Marine Assessment or World Ocean Assessment. A summary of the Assessment has been issued as a General Assembly document (A/70/112). The Website of the Regular Process was launched on 25 January 2013, containing general information on the Regular Process and specific information on the development of the World Ocean Assessment.