Abstract
No conservation agreement works in isolation. In NW European seas there are several other pieces of legislation that have come into force to protect the marine environment. Most notable of these are the EU Habitats and Marine Strategy Framework Directives, the Oslo and Paris Convention (OSPAR) and the Helsinki Convention (HELCOM). This chapter reviews their history and development, and how they relate to cetacean conservation. Comparisons are then made with cetacean legislative agreements in other parts of the world, starting with the sister agreement of UNEP’s Convention on Migratory Species, ACCOBAMS, that applies to the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and then to others: the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling that applies globally, and Marine Mammal Protection Acts and related legislation in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The strengths and limitations of these are reviewed, with a view to making the ASCOBANS Agreement more effective.
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