The Marine Protected Areas Technical
Group replaces Marine Natura Project Group.
Details of the revised governance. This is
an inter-agency, executive-level technical group that
co-ordinates all Marine Protected Areas work. The
group is chaired by the JNCC Marine Director,
Doctor John
Goold and reports to
JNCC Committee and the
SPA Scientific Working
Group. When required
, it will provide
information to the non-executive Marine Protected Areas
Committee Sub-Group for further consideration or endorsement who,
in turn will advise Joint Committee. Meetings are held
three times a year in February, May and September and are
supported by a Secretariat provided by JNCC. With regard to
Natura, the first step in the
process of SAC
identification is comment on the site documentation by the
Technical Group. The Terms of Reference for the Group
will be made available shortly and minutes of previous meetings are
available.
The minutes of past meetings are made available once they have
been formally approved by the group at the subsequent meeting.