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The second cycle of the Regular Process was launched by the General Assembly in December 2015, and runs from 2016 to 2020. While the first cycle focused on establishing a baseline for measuring the state of the marine environment, the second cycle will extend to evaluating trends and identifying gaps.ÌýÌý(pdf)Ìýenvisages two main outputs. The first output is the preparation of the second world ocean assessment, which will play a decisive supporting role for other 51³Ô¹Ï processes and should support policy development and decision-making at the national, regional and global levels. This is closely related to the second output, namely Regular Process support for other ocean-related intergovernmental processes. Under this output, key activities will be identified to support and interact with ongoing ocean-related intergovernmental processes. This includes the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the process for the development of an international legally binding instrument under the 51³Ô¹Ï Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, as well as the processes under the 51³Ô¹Ï Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 51³Ô¹Ï Open-ended Informal Consultative Process. One such activity was completed in June 2017, when three process-specificÌýTechnical AbstractsÌýof the first World Ocean Assessment were launched.