Overview of the 35th Meeting of the North Sea Hydrographic Commission and IHO Secretariat Operations
The 35th Meeting of the North Sea Hydrographic Commission held in Reykjavik, Iceland, from 5-7 April 2022, discussed council matters, work program items, and the IHO Secretariat's role. The IHO is composed of 97 member states organized into regional commissions, with activities aligned to a three-year work program. The IHO Secretariat manages coordination, facilitation, and publication tasks, supported by employees from various nations. Member states actively contribute to technical working groups.
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35th Meeting of the North Sea Hydrographic Commission (NSHC) Reykjavik, Island, 5-7 April 2022 IHO Secretariat Report Secretariat s work, Council matters and Work Programme items Dr Mathias Jonas Secretary-General North Sea Hydrographic Commission
IHO: made of Member States - operated by the Secretariat 97 Member States on six continents organized in 15 Regional Hydrographic Commissions plus Hydrographic Commission on Antarctica; All activities based on the three years Work programme with the main chapters: Corporate Affairs Hydrographic Services and Standards Inter Regional Coordination and Support Work Programme approved by Assembly and fine tuned annually by Council; All together 18 Sub-committees, boards, working groups plus numerous project teams under the two main Committees: HSSC and IRCC; Main contribution of Member States by nomination of hundreds of experts plus participating stakeholder`s experts. 05/04/2022 2 North Sea Hydrographic Commission
The IHO Secretariat 18 Employees of ten nations half of them engaged with specific hydrographic matters; Seconded by currently three project officers detached by Member States; Annual budget of approximately 3.3 Million Euro; Main tasks: Coordination, facilitation and secretary roles for the various Committees, Boards and Working Groups; Organizational tasks for Assembly, Council and Committee meetings; Representation of IHO at many liaising IGOs and industry bodies; Publication maintenance of a wealth of technical standards and other publications supporting uniformity and international cooperation in hydrography. Provision of GIS services such as INToGIS, Gazetteers, Registries, Document archives; IHO Website, media outreach such as social media; International Hydrographic Review as authoritative publication about hydrography as applied science; 05/04/2022 3 North Sea Hydrographic Commission
Statistics on Member States participation in IHO Working groups in 2021 IHO Technical Working Groups & Project teams: Data Quality, WEND, S-101, Tides, Water Level & Currents, Nautical Information & Publication, ENC, Nautical Cartography, Hydrographic Survey, Crowd Source Bathymetry, MSDI, IHO-EU Altogether 460 participants from 40 Member States: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, India, Iran, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Mexico, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay and USA 05/04/2022 4 North Sea Hydrographic Commission
Statistics on participation in the two main coordinating Committees in 2021 HSSC-13 The meeting was chaired by Magnus Wallhagen (Sweden) and attended by 120 participants from 29 Member States, 5 Observing Organizations and 8 industry partners. IRCC-13 The meeting was chaired by Mr Thomas Dehling (Germany) and attended by 80 participants from 30 Member States. 05/04/2022 5 North Sea Hydrographic Commission
IHO Membership Albania has set up the national regular framework to become the 98th Member State. Recommendation: NSHC is invited to further assist the Secretariat in promotion of membership to those States not yet IHO Member States. 05/04/2022 6 North Sea Hydrographic Commission
IHO Council decisions Recommendations: Invitation to continue on the implementation of the IHO Strategic Plan, elaborate on the gap analysis and support IRCC in identifying measures and values to measure those SPI of regional interest allocated to IRCC, in accordance with IRCC CL 01/2021, and attending at the 2nd IRCC Workshop. Note the appropriate HSSC s governance document on the dual fuel concept. NSHC members are invited to participate at the EWH project and provide proposals via the specific webpage (https://iho.int/en/basic-cbsc-ewh). NSHC members are invited to provide contributions of online learning material to the Project Team established for the IHO e-Learning Center at KHOA. 05/04/2022 7 North Sea Hydrographic Commission
NSHC Statutes NSHC Statutes - - INT Chart and ENC Production Coordination INT Chart and ENC Production Coordination - - Region D Region D IHO ACL 26/2020 noted the positive vote of the Member States on the approval of the Revision of the IHO Resolution 2/1997 Establishment of Regional Hydrographic Commissions (RHC) (Assembly Document A2_2020_PRO3-1_EN_Res_21997_cc_v1). Recommendations: NSHC is invited to adapt their respective instruments to the recommendations of the revised IHO Resolution 2/1997. Consider the extended production of HD ENCs. 05/04/2022 8 North Sea Hydrographic Commission
Capacity Building Programme & Maritime Safety Information Services Capacity Building Programme & Maritime Safety Information Services Recommendations: Continue follow and evaluate the possibility to contribute to the CB Programme. Encourage all information providers (NAV and MET Area Coordinators and RCCs) to complete agreements with all RMSS and commence the necessary testing of the SafetyCast system to progress towards declaring full operational status. Establish and maintain effective communications with the relevant NAV and MET Area Coordinators to ensure the timely provision of MSI. Use and follow the guidance provided in S-53 Joint IMO/IHO/WMO Manual on Maritime Safety Information to ensure the necessary facilities and capabilities are provided and maintained for the gathering and communication of MSI within their area of national responsibility. 05/04/2022 9 North Sea Hydrographic Commission
GEBCO support through Crowdsourced Bathymetry GEBCO support through Crowdsourced Bathymetry and and Seabed 2030 Seabed 2030 Recommendations: NSHC members and associate members are encouraged to officialise and/or review their positions on the conduct of CSB in their waters of national jurisdiction (iaw IHO CL 21/2020 and IRCC CL 1/2020) and to identify further potential sources of bathymetric measurements and survey data providers to facilitate the further completion of the DCDB data holdings, as well as to make data openly available for inclusion in the DCDB and the widest possible use, in accordance with IHO Resolution 1/2017. NSHC members are encouraged to become actively involved in the GEBCO programme and its subordinate projects, to support the collection of data within their waters, and to make more detailed and comprehensive seabed data available, in particular deep ocean data from transit or commercial/scientific surveys. 05/04/2022 10 North Sea Hydrographic Commission
International Hydrographic Review (IHR) International Hydrographic Review (IHR) To promote and modernize the distribution of the content of the IHR the IHO Secretariat has worked out a new IHR website with Geomares. Ihr.iho.int The IHR has a new editor Dr Patrick Westfeld from Germany. Papers for consideration for publication in the IHR should be forwarded directly to the editor (ihr.review@iho.int, copy to ihr.editor@iho.int.com). The deadlines are: end of January for the May Edition end of July for the November Edition The IHO Secretariat worked with the University of New Brunswick (UNB), Canada to develop a digital repository of the complete library of the IHR. As a result, volumes from the entire collections (1923 to 2018) are available online at: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ihr. NSHC Members are invited to submit papers for publication in the IHR. 05/04/2022 11 North Sea Hydrographic Commission
Forthcoming 3 Forthcoming 3rd rd IHO Assembly 2023 IHO Assembly 2023 The forthcoming third IHO Assembly is scheduled as in person event to 24 28 April 2023. The Council is requested to discuss, endorse and finally forward the triennial Work Plan for 2023 2026. The NSHC is invited to discuss and put forward its view for strategic directions on the portfolio if work items to be incorporated into the plan. 05/04/2022 12 North Sea Hydrographic Commission
NSHC is requested to take note of this briefing, and to take action on the items raised in the full report submitted as meeting document NSHC35-B1.1. 05/04/2022 13 North Sea Hydrographic Commission
