The 2020 biennial Commission meeting of the IWC will be held at the Grand Bernardin Resort, Portoroz, Slovenia
The 2021 IWC Scientific Committee meeting (SC68C) will again be held virtually to reduce risk of COVID-19 exposure to SC members. As the Commission plans to meet in September 2021, coupled with the reduced agenda of SC68B, we aim to cover the full SC agenda at this meeting. To accomplish this goal, some agenda items will be discussed intersessionally in the months preceding SC68C. The meeting will also be extended by five days to allow participants to have weekends off and to accommodate more meetings of sub-groups/sub-committees and Plenary. Despite these efforts, some items may still be postponed until 2022, especially those that are highly technical. All sub-groups/sub-committees will hold at least one virtual session during SC68C. Below are details regarding proposed meeting dates, intersessional meetings and other topics relevant to the SC meeting.
The draft annotated Agenda is now available here (registration required)
Registration will be open on 19 January 2021. SC members are urged to register as soon as possible so they will receive notification of intersessional meetings and other SC meeting information. Once your registration has been approved, you will receive access to the SC68C Meeting SharePoint website, where you will be able to access documents, meeting schedules and other information.
The SC Chair, Vice-Chair, Lead for Science and SC convenors will ensure that SC members are well informed about procedures that may be different from normal SC processes, the schedule of sessions and notification of altered schedules, availability of new documents and other pertinent information.