45. Decides to establish by 2004 a regular process under the United Nations for the global reporting and assessment of the state of the marine environment, including socio-economic aspects, both current and foreseeable, building on existing regional assessments, and requests the Secretary-General, in close collaboration with Member States, relevant organizations and agencies and programmes of the United Nations system, namely, the United Nations Environment Programme, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Maritime Organization, the World Health Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the World Meteorological Organization and the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, other competent intergovernmental organizations and relevant non-governmental organizations, to prepare proposals on modalities for a regular process for the global reporting and assessment of the state of the marine environment, drawing, inter alia, upon the work of the United Nations Environment Programme pursuant to Governing Council decision 21/13, and taking into account the recently completed review by the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection, and to submit these proposals to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session for its consideration and decision, including on the convening of a possible intergovernmental meeting;
45. 决定在2004年或以前在联合国范围内设立一个经常程序，在现有区域评估的基础上，就海洋环境，包括社会经济方面的现状和前景作出全球报告和评估，并请秘书长与会员国、联合国系统有关组织和机构及方案，即联合国环境规划署、政府间海洋学委员会、联合国粮食及农业组织、国际海事组织、世界卫生组织、国际原子能机构、世界气象组织和生物多样性公约秘书处，以及其他主管政府间组织和相关的非政府组织密切合作，就海洋环境现状全球报告和评估经常程序的方式拟定建议，除其他外，可借鉴联合国环境规划署根据理事会第21/13号决定开展的工作，并考虑到海洋环境保护的科学方面联合专家组最近完成的审查，并将这些建议提交大会第五十八届会议供审议并作出决定，包括就是否召开一次政府间会议作出决定；