The 30th EC Meeting was conducted virtually on 28 March 2023 via Zoom. Participants of the meeting included the EC, particularly the Chair, Intergovernmental Session Chair and Co-Chair, and the Technical Session Chair and Co-Chair of the EAS Partnership Council (PC) and the Executive Director of the PEMSEA Resource Facility (PRF). Observers from the China PEMSEA Center and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) of the Philippines also attended the meeting. PRF served as the secretariat of the meeting.