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Art.3 |
Article III |
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Art.3.1 |
1. The Commission shall appoint an Executive Secretary according to such procedure and on such terms as it may determine. |
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Art.3.2 |
2. The staff of the Commission shall be appointed by the Executive Secretary in accordance with such rules and procedures as may be determined and authorized by the Commission. |
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Art.3.3 |
3. The Executive Secretary shall, subject to the general supervision of the Commission, have full power and authority over the staff and shall perform such other functions as the Commission shall prescribe. |
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Art.6 |
Article VI |
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Art.6.1 |
1. The Commission shall be responsible in the field of scientific investigation for obtaining and collating the information necessary for maintaining those stocks of fish which support international fisheries in the Convention area and the Commission may, through or in collaboration with agencies of the Contracting Governments or other public or private agencies and organizations or, when necessary, independently : |
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Art.6.1.a |
(a) make such investigations as it finds necessary into the abundance, life history and ecology of any species of aquatic life in any part of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean; |
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Art.6.1.b |
(b) collect and analyze statistical information relating to the current conditions and trends of the fishery resources of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean; |
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Art.6.1.c |
(c) study and appraise information concerning the methods for maintaining and increasing stocks of fish in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean; |
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Art.6.1.d |
(d) hold or arrange such hearings as may be useful or essential in connection with the development of complete factual information necessary to carry out the provisions of this Convention; |
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Art.6.1.e |
(e) conduct fishing operations in the Convention area at any time for purposes of scientific investigation; |
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Art.6.1.f |
(f) publish and otherwise disseminate reports of its findings and statistical, scientific and other information relating to the fisheries of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean as well as such other reports as fall within the scope of this Convention. |
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Art.6.2 |
2. Upon the unanimous recommendation of each Panel affected, the Commission may alter the boundaries of the sub-areas set out in the Annex. Any such alteration shall forthwith be reported to the Depositary Government which shall inform the Contracting Governments, and the sub-areas defined in the Annex shall be altered accordingly. |
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Art.6.3 |
3. The Contracting Governments shall furnish to the Commission, at such time and in such form as may be required by the Commission, the statistical information referred to in paragraph I (b) of this Article. |
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Art.8 |
Article VIII |
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Art.8.1 |
1. The Commission may, on the recommendations of one or more Panels, and on the basis of scientific investigations, transmit to the Depositary Government proposals, for joint action by the Contracting Governments, designed to keep the stocks of those species of fish which support international fisheries in the Convention area at a level permitting the maximum sustained catch by the application, with respect to such species of fish, of one or more of the following measures: |
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Art.8.1.a |
(a) establishing open and closed seasons; |
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Art.8.1.b |
(b) closing to fishing such portions of a sub-area as the Panel concerned finds to be a spawning area or to be populated by small or immature fish; |
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Art.8.1.c |
(c) establishing size limits for any species; |
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Art.8.1.d |
(d) prescribing the fishing gear and appliances the use of which is prohibited; |
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Art.8.1.e |
(e) prescribing an over-all catch limit for any species of fish. |
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Art.8.2 |
2. Each recommendation shall be studied by the Commission and thereafter the Commission shall either |
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Art.8.2.a |
(a) transmit the recommendation as a proposal to the Depositary Government with such modifications or suggestions as the Commission may consider desirable, or |
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Art.8.2.b |
(b) refer the recommendation back to the Panel with comments for its reconsideration. |
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Art.8.3 |
3. The Panel may, after reconsidering the recommendation returned to it by the Commission, reaffirm that recommendation, with or without modification. |
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Art.8.4 |
4. If, after a recommendation is reaffirmed, the Commission is unable to adopt the recommendation as a proposal, it shall send a copy of the recommendation to the Depositary Government with a report of the Commission's decision. The Depositary Government shall transmit copies of the recommendation and of the Commission's report to the Contracting Governments. |
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Art.8.5 |
5. The Commission may, after consultation with all the Panels, transmit proposals to the Depositary Government within the scope of paragraph I of this Article affecting the Convention area as a whole. |
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Art.8.6 |
6. The Depositary Government shall transmit any proposal received by it to the Contracting Governments for their consideration and may make such suggestions as will facilitate acceptance of the proposal. |
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Art.8.7 |
7. The Contracting Governments shall notify the Depositary Government of their acceptance of the proposal, and the Depositary Government shall notify the Contracting Governments of each acceptance communicated to it, including the date of receipt thereof. |
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Art.8.8 |
8. The proposal shall become effective for all Contracting Governments four months after the date on which notifications of acceptance shall have been received by the Depositary Government from all the Contracting Governments participating in the Panel or Panels for the sub-area or sub-areas to which the proposal applies. |
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Art.8.9 |
9. At any time after the expiration of one year from the date on which a proposal becomes effective, any Panel Government for the sub-area to which the proposal applies may give to the Depositary Government notice of the termination of its acceptance of the proposal and, if that notice is not withdrawn, the proposal shall cease to be effective for that Panel Government at the end of one year from the date of receipt of the notice by the Depositary Government. At any time after a proposal has ceased to be effective for a Panel Government under this paragraph, the proposal shall cease to be effective for any other Contracting Government upon the date a notice of withdrawal by such Government is received by the Depositary Government. The Depositary Government shall notify all Contracting Governments of every notice under this paragraph immediately upon the receipt thereof. |
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Art.9 |
Article IX |
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Art.9.1x |
The Commission may invite the attention of any or all Contracting Governments to any matters which relate to the objectives and purposes of this Convention. |
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Art.10 |
Article X |
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Art.10.1 |
1. The Commission shall seek to establish and maintain working arrangements with other public international organizations which have related objectives, particularly the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, to ensure effective collaboration and coordination with respect to their work and, in the case of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, the avoidance of duplication of scientific investigations. |
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Art.10.2 |
2. The Commission shall consider, at the expiration of two years from the date of entry into force of this Convention, whether or not it should recommend to the Contracting Governments that the Commission be brought within the framework of a specialized agency of the United Nations. |
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Art.11 |
Article XI |
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Art.11.1 |
1. Each Contracting Government shall pay the expenses of the Commissioners, experts and advisers appointed by it. |
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Art.11.2 |
2. The Commission shall prepare an annual administrative budget of the proposed necessary administrative expenditures of the Commission and an annual special projects budget of proposed expenditures on special studies and investigations to be undertaken by or on behalf of the Commission pursuant to Article VI or by or on behalf of any Panel pursuant to Article VII. |
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Art.11.3 |
3. The Commission shall calculate the payments due from each Contracting Government under the annual administrative budget according to the following formula : |
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Art.11.3.a |
(a) from the administrative budget there shall be deducted a sum of 500 United States dollars for each Contracting Government; |
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Art.11.3.b |
(b) the remainder shall be divided into such number of equal shares as corresponds to the total number of Panel memberships; |
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Art.11.3.c |
(c) the payment due form any Contracting Government shall be the equivalent of 500 United States dollars plus the number of shares equal to the number of Panels in which that Government participates. |
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Art.11.4 |
4. The Commission shall notify each Contracting Government the sum due from that Government as calculated under paragraph 3 of this Article and as soon as possible thereafter each Contracting Government shall pay to the Commission the sum so notified. |
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Art.11.5 |
5. The annual special projects budget shall be allocated to the Contracting Governments according to a scale to be determined by agreement among the Contracting Governments, and the sums so allocated to any Contracting Government shall be paid to the Commission by that Government. |
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Art.11.6 |
6. Contributions shall be payable in the currency of the country in which the seat of the Commission is located, except that the Commission may accept payment in the currencies in which it may be anticipated that expenditures of the Commission will be made from time to time, up to an amount established each year by the Commission in connection with the preparation of the annual budgets. |
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Art.11.7 |
7. At its first meeting the Commission shall approve an administrative budget for the balance of the first financial year in which the Commission functions and shall transmit to the Contracting Governments copies' of that budget together with notices of their respective allocations. |
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Art.11.8 |
8. In subsequent financial years, the Commission shall submit to each Contracting Government drafts of the annual budgets together with a schedule of allocations, not less than six weeks before the annual meeting of the Commission at which the budgets are to be considered. |
