The Bureau of the Committee of Permanent Correspondents of the EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement held its first meeting of 2020 on 8 April.

As an emergency measure to stop the spread of COVID-19, the Bureau meeting was held via videoconference. The participants followed up on decisions taken at the Joint Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Correspondents and Directors of Specialised Centres in November 2019 and discussed, among other topics, the programme of activities for 2020 and preparations for the next EUR-OPA Ministerial Conference in 2021. 

In the light of the urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, the Bureau decided that biological hazards should be included in the scope of EUR-OPA’s activities.

The meeting report is available on the page of the Bureau.