Bern convention institutions
8-10 April 2025 Strasbourg

1st Bureau meeting 2025

June 2025 Online

2nd Bureau meeting 2025

September 2025 Strasbourg

3rd Bureau meeting 2025

8-12 December 2025 Strasbourg

45th Standing Committee

Ecological Networks
7-8 October 2025 Montenegro

Group of Experts on Protected Areas and Ecological Networks

scientific and technical meetings
20 February 2025 Online

3rd meeting of the Working Group overseeing the implementation of the Strategic Plan with a joint session together with the Ad hoc Working Group on Reporting

March 2025 Online

1st meeting of the Working Group on exploring sustainable financing options for the Bern Convention

13 March 2025 Online

1st meeting of the Working Group on exploring mechanisms to guide amendments to the appendices of the Bern Convention

20 March 2025 Online

Meeting of the Group of Experts on Invasive Alien Species

25 March 2025 Online

Meeting of the Group of Experts on the Conservation of Amphibians and Reptiles

To be confirmed Online

Joint meeting of the Group of Experts on Invasive Alien Species and the Panel on Amphibians and Reptiles

7 May 2025 Online

Webinar on the reporting under Resolution No. 8 (2012)

13-15 May 2025 Bonn

Joint meeting with the CMS MIKT on Illegal Killing, Trapping and Trade in Wild Birds (IKB)

15-16 May 2025 Bonn

Group of Experts on the Conservation of Birds (back-to-back with the IKB meeting)

June 2025 TBD

Group of Experts on Large Carnivores

June 2025 Online

Expert Meeting on the Eradication of the Ruddy Duck

September 2025 Online

Ad hoc Working Group on the conservation of marine turtles

September Online

2nd meeting of the Working Group on exploring mechanisms to guide amendments to the appendices of the Bern Convention

October 2025 TBD

4th meeting of the Working Group on overseeing the implementation of the Strategic Plan

4-5 November 2024 Copenhagen

8th meeting of the Ad hoc Working Group on Reporting back -to-back with a training course on reporting for non-EU Contracting Parties

November 2025 TBD

Workshop on minimising the negative impact of mining on biodiversity

european diploma for protected areas
20 May 2025 Granada (Spain)

Meeting of Group of Specialists on EDPA

21-22 May 2025 Granada (Spain)

60th anniversary of the EDPA