REPORT OF CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE (CONC)

The ConC Chair welcomed all meeting participants (see Annex 1).Due to sudden illness the Chair of DFC had been advised to cancel his participation in the ASC. The former Chair of DFC, N. Ó’Maoiléidigh kindly accepted to stand in on a short notice.H. Sagen, Co-Chair of WGDIM had been invited to present the WGDIM report to ConC (item 13) and D. Wilson, Chair of the Working Group on Fishery Systems, attended the meeting as an observer for the SAFMAMS project. (D. Wilson had asked permission to observe the meetings around the ASC to see how scientific advice is being formulated at different levels and to follow new approaches to the advice process).The meeting was attended by Secretariat staff for relevant agenda items, i.e. the General Secretary, Head of the Science and Advisory Programmes, the Departmental Secretary of the Science Programme (all items), the Conference Coordinator (items 4, 10 and 11), and the Data Centre Manager (items 13 and 16). The meeting was attended by the ICES President on the first session of the meeting on Saturday 15 September.