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This inventory report presents the results of the questionnaire set up to identify the existing ‘seabirds at sea’ (SAS) programmes collected in the OSPAR and HELCOM areas. For each country and SAS programme, we discuss the specific content and the potential constraints for future integration in the central ESAS database. We can conclude that data quality aspects (language use, update frequency, data format) allow for future migration. Only 8% of the respondents indicated to have financial constraints for sharing data, although one third indicated not to know. The legal aspects to the mobilization are considered to be the largest hindrance: almost half of the respondents indicated to have legal objections for sharing monitoring data. These results were discussed in a joint workshop and led to the conclusion that a joint international effort is essential to work towards a central ESAS database, which will automatically benefit the monitoring and research of seabirds in the North Sea.