Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of North-East Atlantic • OSPAR Commission. ••>

North Sea Conferences & Declarations. ••>

Wadden Sea Joint Declaration & Action Plan • Wadden Sea Secretariat. ••>

Rhine Convention • ICPR. ••>

Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe. ••>

Save the North Sea Project.

International actors and agreements in the region

See Global action.

Convention of the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes • UN ECE. ••>

UN Economic Commission for Europe. ••>

UNEP Regional Office for Europe. ••>

UNEP Regional Seas Programme. ••>

UNEP Global programme of action for the protection of the marine environment from land-based activities (UNEP GPA). ••>

Private sector and NGOs actors and initiatives

Ocean Concervancy: International Coastal Cleanup (ICC). ••>

UNEP and Clean up Australia: Clean up the World! ••>

European Union for Coastal Conservation. ••>

North Sea Commission. ••>

Forum Skagerrak. ••>

European Sea Ports Organisation. ••>

KIMO. ••>

Seas at Risk. ••>

Regional reports on the state of the marine and coastal environment

OSPAR Quality Status Report 2000.

EEA: Marine and Coastal Environment. Annual topic update 1999 (EEA Topic Center on Marine and Coastal Environment)

EEA: State of the environment reporting system (SERIS): Atlantic. See also country reports for Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

KIMO: "Impacts of Marine Debris and Oil"

Wadden Sea Quality Status Report 1999.

Forum Skagen: Forum Skagerrak Reports

UNEP GPA: North East Atlantic (brief description of environmental state, priority issues, etc.).

UNEP: Global Environment Outlook 3 (GEO3). Coastal and marine areas.

University of Rhode Island: Large Marine Ecosystems (LME): The region includes the East Greenland Shelf, Iceland Shelf, Faroe Plateau, Norwegian Shelf, North Sea, Celtic Sea–Bay of Biscay, and the Iberian Coastal system.

Other publications on marine and coastal environment, including marine litter

Articles in Marine Pollution Bulletin on marine litter/marine debris in the North Sea, off Great Britain and the Netherlands, in the NE Atlantic off the Azores and Bay of Biscay, and in the North Atlantic generally: 2002, 2001, 2000, 1998, 1996 and 1995.