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title: "UPDATE.  The ACAP Advisory Committee will meet for the 12th time in Ecuador from the end of August"
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# UPDATE.  The ACAP Advisory Committee will meet for the 12th time in Ecuador from the end of August

**UPDATE: ** The ACAP Secretariat and Advisory Committee Chair are consulting with ACAP Parties about the way forward as regards AC12 in relation to COVID-19.  At this stage, we are considering deferring the Advisory Committee and associated Working Group meetings.

 ![AlbatrossWaved084](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/W/Waved/AlbatrossWaved084.jpg)

 Ecuador's endemic Waved Albatross *Phoebastria irrorata* is [Critically Endangered](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/22698320), photograph by [Laurie Smaglick Johnson](https://www.acap.aq/en/latest-news/3493-three-photographers-donate-use-of-their-albatross-images-to-support-acap-and-world-albatross-day)

 [ The Twelfth Meeting of ACAP’s Advisory Committee ([AC12](https://www.acap.aq/en/documents/advisory-committee/ac12)) will be held from Monday 31 August to Friday 4 September 2020, in the [Mantahost Hotel](https://mantahosthotel.com/), Manta, Ecuador.  Meetings of the [Seabird Bycatch Working Group](https://www.acap.aq/en/documents/working-groups/seabird-bycatch-working-group) and the [Population and Conservation Status Working Group](https://www.acap.aq/en/documents/working-groups/population-and-conservation-status-working-group) will precede AC12 at the same venue: [SBWG10](https://www.acap.aq/en/documents/working-groups/seabird-bycatch-working-group/sbwg-10) from Monday 24 to Thursday 27 August, and [PaCSWG6](https://www.acap.aq/en/documents/working-groups/population-and-conservation-status-working-group/pacswg6) from Thursday 27 to Friday 28 August.  As decided by [AC11](https://www.acap.aq/en/documents/advisory-committee/ac11), a joint SBWG10/PACSWG6 will be held on the morning of Thursday 27 August to discuss cross-cutting issues.  A Heads of Delegation meeting will be convened on Sunday 30 August in the late afternoon/evening.](https://www.acap.aq/en/documents/advisory-committee/ac11)

 Information on deadlines for submission and distribution of meeting documents are given in [Circular 1](https://www.acap.aq/en/documents/advisory-committee/ac12/ac12-circulars), available in ACAP’s three official languages of [English](https://www.acap.aq/en/documents/advisory-committee/ac12), [French](https://www.acap.aq/fr/documents/comite-consultatif/cc12) and [Spanish](https://www.acap.aq/es/documentos/comite-asesor/ca12).  Information is also given in the circular on applications for observer status by international and non-international bodies.

 [https://www.acap.aq/en/documents/advisory-committee/ac12/ac12-circulars](https://www.acap.aq/en/documents/advisory-committee/ac12/ac12-circulars)A block booking for delegates has been made at the [Mantahost Hotel](https://mantahosthotel.com/); more details in the first circular.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 20 January 2020, updated 01 April 2020*