- Workshop Opening Speech - Honorable Mark Brown (Minister of Natural Resources and Minerals, Cook Islands)
- Responding Remarks
- Mr Kifle Kahsai (Chief Geoscientist, SOPAC Division, SPC), and
- Mr Scott Roger (Coordinator – PFTAC, Fiji)
- Workshop Programme
- Participants List
- Workshop Proceedings (Not Available yet!)
- Presentations and Presenters:
- Day 1: Session 1
- An overview of the DSM Project: DSM developments and issues in the region - Mr Akuila Tawake (Team Leader – DSM Project, SPC)
- Overview of civil society perspectives - MsTeina Mackenzie (Te Ipukarea Society, Cook Islands)
- Overview of DSM Environmental Issues - Ms Alison Swaddling (Environment Advisor - DSM Project, SPC)
- Session 2: Legal Issues - Ms Hannah Lily (SOPAC, SPC)
- Seabed Minerals beyond national jurisdiction, the common heritage of mankind, ISA - Mr Chris Brown (ISA Consultant)
- Session 3: Commercial realities in delivering DSM projects - Mr John Feenan (IHC Mining)
- Session 4: Industry Perspectives
- Nautilus Minerals Inc - Mr Johnathen Lowe (Nautilus Minerals Inc)
- Neptune Minerals - Ms Sophie Egden (Neptune Minerals Inc)
- Day 2: Session 5
- Session 6: A case study: Mauritius Ocean Economy roadmap - Mr Ashvin Degnarain (Government of Mauritius)
- Session 7: Integrating socio-economic and environmental impacts into decision making about DSM - Ms Sybille Van den Hove (EU MIDAS Project)
- Session 8: Economic value of Cook Islands DSM deposits - Mr Darryl Thorburn (CI Seabed Minerals Authority)
- Session 9: Introduction to potential economic benefits, challenges and risks for Pacific-ACP States from DSM - Mr Peter Mullins (IMF)
- Session 10: Part I: Designing a fiscal regime for DSM - Mr Peter Mullins (IMF)
- Session 11: Part II: Designing a fiscal regime for DSM - Mr Lee Burns (IMF)
- Session 12: Interactive Session with Working Groups: Taxation and Royalties
- Day 3: Session 14: Tax Administration and Other Fiscal Issues - Mr Peter Mullins and Mr Lee Burns (IMF)
- Session 15: Case studies / Examples of Taxation and Royalty Regimes for DSM
- Case study from Tonga - Ms Lepaola Vaea (Tonga)
- Case study from PNG - Mr Asavi Kendua and Mr Harry Kore (PNG)
- Case study from Cook Islands - Mr Richard Neves (Financial Secretary, CI)
- Session 16: Panel and Plenary Discussions *Summary will be in the Proceedings report
- Session 17: How to maximise revenue by a regional approach - Mr Scott Roger (PFTAC)
- Fisheries Case Study - Mr Ben Ponia (Secretary of Marine Resources, CI)
- Regional DSM cooperation options: i) a treaty, ii) regulatory services provider - Ms Hannah Lily (SOPAC, SPC)
- Session 18: Interactive Working Group Session
- Day 4: Session 20: Public Financial Management for DSM - Mr Vidar Ovesen and Mr Ron Hackett (IMF)
- Session 21: Methods of enforcing performance standards, and EU perspective - Ms Eszter Kantor (Ecorys)
- Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) - Mr Vidar Ovesen (IMF)
- Solomon Islands: EITI - Mr George Tapo (Solomon Islands Government)
- PNG: EITI - Mr Harry Kore (PNG Government)
- A 'DSM Transparency Initiative' - Mr Jeff Ardron (Deep Ocean Steward Initiative, DOSI)
- Session 22: Sovereign Wealth Funds - Mr Vidar Ovesen (IMF)
- Session 23: Sovereign Wealth Funds - the Cook Islands - Mr Richard Neves (CI)