In 2008, the governing bodies agreed that a Joint Long-term Programme (JLTP) for the London Convention and Protocol should be prepared that outlines the tasks and activities undertaken by Contracting Parties and their meetings in relation to the two instruments. The JLTP should be updated directly after the session of the governing bodies at the end of each year and would serve as a reference document at the start of the new meetings' season. On this basis, the governing bodies and their subsidiary bodies would focus their discussions on future work set out in the short priority tables (appendices I, II and III of the annex), as used in previous years (LC 30/16, paragraphs 13.12 to 13.16). 2 In accordance with this decision, the JLTP, as set out in the annex, has been updated in light of achievements since 2013 and decisions at the sessions of the governing bodies since that time. It also incorporates, as instructed, the activities given to the LC/LP Scientific Groups and the LP Compliance Group and covers the period 2016 to 2018. 3 This cover page and the introduction and table of contents of the annex are distributed in the English, French and Spanish languages, whereas the remainder of the document is kept in English only.

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