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Pre.1 |
The Parties, |
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Pre.2 |
RECOGNIZING that seals are an irreplaceable component of the Wadden Sea ecosystem and that they are of great importance as indicators of its condition; |
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Pre.3 |
AWARE that they constitute a separate population whose main range and the main migration routes are located in the Wadden Sea and which should, as a consequence, be managed as a single unit; |
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Pre.4 |
DEEPLY CONCERNED by the conservation status of that population, which as the result of mass deaths of seals has been reduced to the lowest level ever recorded; |
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Pre.5 |
WITH A VIEW to improving this conservation status through concerted action on the part of the States that exercise jurisdiction over the range of that population; |
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Pre.6 |
RECALLING the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals signed at Bonn on 23 June 1979 and notably its Appendix II which was amended in 1985 to include the Wadden Sea population of the common or harbour seal; |
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Pre.7 |
RECALLING the Joint Declaration on the Protection of the Wadden Sea, adopted at the Third Governmental Meeting on the Protection of the Wadden Sea in Copenhagen on 9 December 1982; |
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Pre.8 |
RECALLING the Declarations adopted by the First International Conference on the Protection of the North Sea, Bremen, 1 November 1984, and the Second International Conference on the Protection of the North Sea, London, 25 November 1987; |
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Pre.9 |
RECALLING the trilateral Administrative Agreement on a Common Secretariat for the Cooperation on the Protection of the Wadden Sea of 23 October 1987; |
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Pre.10 |
HAVE AGREED as follows: |
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Art.3 |
III. Purpose and Object |
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Art.3.1x |
The Parties shall cooperate closely with a view to achieving and maintaining a favourable conservation status for the seal population. |
