MIRAC - Report of the Annual Meeting between ICES and RACs

The new ACOM Chair, Eskild Kirkegaard, opened the meeting and welcomed partic-ipants to Copenhagen. Representatives from the North Sea, North Western Waters, Baltic Sea, Pelagic, Long Distance RACs, as well as from EU-DGMARE, EFCA, the ACOM Leadership and ICES staff were in attendance. There were three observers. See list of participants in Annex 1.Three participants were unfortunately affected by flight delays; the chair of NWWRAC sent his apologies, while representatives form NSRAC and NWWRAC arrived in time for the second day of the meeting.SWWRAC sent their apologies; a statement from the Secretariat was issued to MIRAC; seen Section 9.5.