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Art.6 |
ARTICLE VI |
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Art.6.1 |
1. Each Member Nation of the Commission undertakes to implement the preventive control strategy and to deal with plagues of the desert locust within its territory and thus to avoid or reduce agro-sylvo-pastoral damage to itself and to the other Nations in the invasion area, by adopting all necessary measures and enacting the following provisions: |
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Art.6.1.a |
(a) participating in the implementation of any common policy of desert locust prevention and control previously approved by the Commission; |
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Art.6.1.b |
(b) establishing a national body charged with the permanent monitoring and control of the desert locust and given maximum autonomy; |
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Art.6.1.c |
(c) formulating, regularly updating and implementing, with its own resources or with the support of the Commission, contingency action plans corresponding to the different foreseeable locust situations, and making these available to the Commission and to any government concerned; |
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Art.6.1.d |
(d) facilitating the free movement of desert locust monitoring and control teams of the other Member Nations within its own borders, in support of its own units and in accordance with procedures to be determined by the Commission; |
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Art.6.1.e |
(e) procuring and maintaining intervention equipment and supplies for implementation of the plans of action envisaged in sub-paragraph (c); |
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Art.6.1.f |
(f) facilitating the storage of all equipment and supplies for desert locust control belonging to the Commission and authorizing their duty-free import or export, and their free movement within the country; |
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Art.6.1.g |
(g) encouraging and supporting, within the limits of available national resources, the activities advocated by the Commission with regard to training, survey and research, including the maintenance of national or regional stations for the study of the desert locust; stations that, in agreement with the Commission, shall be accessible to regional and international research teams. |
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Art.6.2 |
2. Each Member Nation of the Commission undertakes to provide the other Members of the Commission and its Secretary and FAO, using standard procedures and the quickest channels, all information on the locust situation and on the progress of surveys and control operations on its respective territory. |
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Art.6.3 |
3. The Member Nations undertake to provide the Commission with periodic reports on the measures they have taken to fulfill the obligations laid down in paragraphs 1 and 2, and to provide the Commission with any information that it may request for the satisfactory performance of its functions. |
