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Guest of honor was Commodore Neil Brown from the Royal Navy. In sum, 31 people participated in the conference and represented, among others, EEAS, European Commission, ReCAAP-ISC, International Maritime Organization, NATO, EUNAVFOR, Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, EU-MARSIC, BIMCO, and Norwegian Coast Guards. In addition, researchers from France, Germany, India, Japan, People´s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and United Kingdom attended the event. The topics discussed included law enforcement in the maritime domain, in particular the different roles of navies and coast guards, transnational organised crime at sea and obstacles in Euro-Asian collaboration. Following the conference in Seoul, one full panel was dedicated to the topic of the arctic sea and the influence the new Asian observer states China, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea can have in the Arctic Council.