Report 17

Appendix 1

1. Adoption of Agenda and appointment of Rapporteurs

2. Membership of the Group and the future role of GOSEAC

3. Matters arising from GOSEAC IX

3.1 Vostok Lake

3.2 Introduced biota

3.3 State of the Antarctic Environment Report

3.4 Environmental Impact Assessment
4. Report on XXII ATCM and XXV SCAR

4.1 CEP Report

4.2 Matters arising from draft Final Report of XXII ATCM

4.3 Matters arising from Working Group on Biology

4.4 Matters arising from SCAR Delegates Meeting

4.5 SCAR papers for XXIII ATCM, Lima, 1999

5. Commercial exploitation of biological resources

6. Environmental monitoring

6.1 AEON Technical Handbook for Station Monitoring

6.2 Existing research data and activities

6.3 Research requirements

6.3.1 Physiological and biochemical monitoring

6.3.2 Monitoring responses of birds and seals to disturbance

6.3.3 Monitoring organic and inorganic pollutants

6.4 Inventories of past activities

7. Environmental impact of visitors

7.1 Codes of conduct

7.2 Cumulative impacts

8. Report from the Hobart Workshop on the Introduction of Diseases to Antarctic Wildlife

9. Protected and Managed Areas

9.1 Protected Areas Workshops at XXII ATCM and XXIII ATCM

9.2 Revision of existing SSSI and SPA management plans

9.2.1 Guide for the preparation of Management Plans for ASPAs

9.2.2 Svarthamaren SSSI 23

9.3 RAPAL Meeting on "associated and dependent ecosystems"

9.4 Report on the operation of the Admiralty Bay ASMA

9.5 Management plans for subantarctic islands
10. Reports

10.1 Relevant SCAR groups

10.2 CCAMLR

11. Any other business

12. Time and Place of Next Meeting