Towards an ISA Environmental Management Strategy for the Area: Report of an International Workshop convened by the German Environment Agency (UBA), the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) and the Secretariat of the ISA in

This workshop provides an important contribution to the development and drafting of regulations on exploitation for mineral resources in the Area, looking particularly at effective protection of the marine environment in the process. The aim was to assist in the International Seabed Authority's charge to develop an Environmental Management Strategy for the Area, under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the 1994 Agreement.