Minutes of the ACOM Consultations, 18 September 2016, Riga, Latvia

The participants were welcomed to the meeting by ACOM Chair Eskild Kirke-gaard. A special welcome was made to Edwin van Helmond, new ACOM alternate from the Netherlands and Gudmundur Thordarson, new Icelandic ACOM member, who both attended the ACOM meeting for the first time. The Chair also informed that due to flight cancellations the German ACOM Member, Christopher Zimmermann, and the German ACOM Alternate, Alexander Kempf, were unable to attend the meeting.It was emphasized that the ACOM Consultation meeting is not an official meet-ing and therefore no decisions can be taken at the meeting. Those will be taken afterwards at the ACOM Forum and at the ACOM meeting in November.