FISHERY COMMITTEE FOR THE EASTERN CENTRAL ATLANTIC (CECAF)
Source: Unofficial Text
Article VI-2 of the FAO Constitution
FAO Council, Forty-eighth Session, June 1967
Resolution 1/48
FAO FISHERY COMMITTEE FOR THE EASTERN CENTRAL ATLANTIC
THE COUNCIL
NOTING that the need for effective international action for the development and the rational utilization of the fishery resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic had been established;
CONSIDERING that as recommended by the Committee on Fisheries at its Second Session, the establishment of a Committee of selected Member Nations and Associate Members under Article VI-2 of the Constitution for the Eastern Central Atlantic area would, as an interim measure,lead to international cooperation in that area;
AUTHORIZES the Director-General of the Organization to establish, under Article VI-2 of the Constitution, a Committee of selected Member Nations and Associate Members to be known as the ''FAO Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic", and to select its membership from among Member Nations and Associate Members in Africa whose territory borders the Atlantic Ocean from Cape Spartel to the mouth of the Congo River and such other Member Nations and Associate Members fishing or carrying out research in the sea area concerned or having some other interest in the fisheries thereof$ whose contribution to the work of the Committee he deems to be essential or desirable;
FURTHER AUTHORIZES the Director-General to promulgate the Statutes of the Committee and in particular to determine its terms of reference along the general lines of those terms of reference of the FAO Regional Fisheries Commission for Western Africa which relate to sea fisheries
REQUESTS the Director-General when selecting the members of the Committee and determining its terms of reference, to give consideration to the views that may be expressed thereon by the Technical Conference on the Fisheries of West African Countries scheduled to be held in Dakar from 31 July to 4 August 1967; and
Requests the Director-General to report to the Council at its next Session, on measures taken to implement this resolution.
