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Appendix 3

AEON Antarctic Environmental Officers Network

ANTEC Group of Specialists on Antarctic Neotectonics

ASMA Antarctic Specially Managed Area

ASOC Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition

ASPA Antarctic Specially Protected Area

ATCM Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting

ATCP Antarctic Treaty Consultative Party

AWI Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung

CCAMLR Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

CEE Comprehensive Environmental Evaluation

CEMP CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Programme

CEP Committee for Environmental Protection

COMNAP Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programmes

EASIZ Ecology of the Antarctic Sea-Ice Zone

EIA Environmental Impact Assessment

EMM Ecosystem Monitoring and Management

GERG Geochemical and Environmental Research Group

GLOCHANT Group of Specialists on Global Change and the Antarctic

GOSEAC Group of Specialists on Environmental Affairs and Conservation

IAATO International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators

IUCN International Union for the Conservation of Nature (World Conservation Union)

JCADM Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management

RAPAL Réunion de Administradores de Programas Antárticos Latinoamericanos

SAER State of the Antarctic Environment Report

SCALOP Standing Committee on Antarctic Logistics and Operations

SCAR Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

SOER State of Environment Reporting

SPA Specially Protected Area

SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest

UNEP United Nations Environment Programme

UV Ultra-Violet

WG Working Group

WMO World Meteorological Organization