International North Sea Protection Conference

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The International North Sea Protection Conference (INK) was launched in 1984. The Ministers for Environment and Transport of the North Sea bordering countries met to come to agreements on better protection of the North Sea.

The last INK took place in Gothenburg in 2006 . The main topics were the North Sea cod , which is about to become extinct , the protection of the remaining harbor porpoise population and the environmentally sound recycling of scrapped ships.

In future, the protection of the North Sea is to be negotiated within the framework of the EU marine policy and the INK will thus be eliminated. Conservationists criticize that the EU could fall behind the decisions of the INK. Most of the decisions of the INK have so far not been legally binding on the participating states.

Conferences

1. INK 1984 in Bremen
2. INK 1987 in London
3. INK 1990 in The Hague
4. INK 1995 in Esbjerg
5. INK 2002 in Bergen
6. INK 2006 in Gothenburg

Web links

• Declaration of the International Conference on the Protection of the North Sea , Bremen, 1984.
• Second International Conference on the Protection of the North Sea: Ministerial Declaration , London, 1987.
• Fifth International Conference on the Protection of the North Sea: Bergen Declaration , 2002.