XLV Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting 28 May - 8 June 2023 Helsinki, Finland

The XLV Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM XLV) and the XXV Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP XXV) will be taken in Helsinky, Finland. Due to the decision in the ATCM XLIV in Berlin to hold an extra full-day ATCM/CEP joint session on Climate Change on Friday 2 June 2023, the sessions will run from 28 May to 8 June 2023 at the Scandic Marina Congress Center in Helsinki.

For further information vist: https://um.fi/atcm45

Key dates: https://um.fi/atcm45/key-dates

The Parties to the Antarctic Treaty meet every year at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative meeting to exchange information, to consult together on matters of common interest pertaining to Antarctica, and to formulate, consider, and recommend measures to their Governments.

Protocol on Environmental Protection entered into force in 1998 and the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP) was established. Since then, the CEP has usually met at the same time as the ATCM, to discuss issues related to environmental protection and to provide advice to the ATCM. Similar to previous years, the CEP meeting takes place during the first week of the ATCM.

Both the ATCM and CEP adopt, by way of consensus, those measures, decisions, resolutions and recommendations that guarantee the operation of the Treaty System. Every meeting is attended by the representatives of both Consultative and Non-consultative Parties, the observers from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), and the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) and many other experts who are specially invited to the meeting, representing both intergovernmental organizations and civil society. All participants contribute to the deliberations; however, only Consultative Parties take part in the decision-making process. The number of participants is more than 300.