Summary Report from the Seventh Meeting of the SCTF

Abstract

Meeting Summary of the 7th SCTF meeting submitted to the Arctic Council's Senior Arctic Officials meeting in Fairbanks, USA, March 16-17, 2016.

"Vladimir Barbin (Russia) and Evan Bloom (US) co‐chaired the seventh meeting of the Task Force on Scientific Cooperation (SCTF). The meeting was held at the Hilton Nordica Hotel, in Iceland. [...] The Arctic States had been encouraged to participate at the meeting with appropriate experts and lawyers to discuss relevant issues such as; use and terms of definitions; description of the forms and scope of cooperation; description of geographic scope, whether to include a provision on intellectual property rights; provisions for review and meetings of parties; and provisions for cooperation with non‐parties, including Arctic Council Observers."