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This report covers the State of Chuuk component of a project involving used oil audits in selected Pacific Island countries. The objective of the audits is to establish volumes of lubricating, hydraulic and transmission oils imported annually into each country and the volumes of used oil produced, stored or otherwise disposed. The work has been carried out by Contract Environmental Ltd under a contract to the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), with funding provided by the Global Environment Facility. Most of the information required for the audit has been obtained in a country visit undertaken by Martyn O’Cain from 9 June to 15 June 2014 and was organised through the local Environmental Protection Agency in Chuuk

The Fifteenth SPREP Meeting of Officials (15SM) was convened in Papeete, French Polynesia, from 13 to 16 September 2004. A list of Representatives of the SPREP member countries and territories as well as observers is attached as Annexure-I

The Seventh Joint Ordinary Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Apia and SPREP Conventions was held on 10 September 2004 in Papeete, French Polynesia. Parties to the Apia Convention in attendance were Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, France and Samoa. Parties to the SPREP Convention in attendance were Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, France, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Samoa and the United States of America. Observers from Niue, Tuvalu and Tonga were also present as well as SOPAC and Greenpeace. The list of participants is attached as Annex 1

This Annual Report notes the major achievements of SPREP in supporting Pacific island countries and territories to address issues relating to: biodiversity and ecosystem management, waste management and pollution and environmental monitoring and governance