Amendments To The Agreement For The Establishment of a General Fisheries Council for the Mediterranean

Filename: 1976-Amendments-1949-FisheriesCouncilMediterranean.EN.txt
Source: UNTS 1978, pp. 268-270

Amendments To The Agreement For The Establishment Of A General Fisheries Council For The Mediterranean, As Amended

Source: UNTS 1978, pp. 268-270

Amendments To The Agreement Establishing The General Fisheries Council For The Mediterranean (as adopted by the GFCM on 1 July 1976)

PREAMBLE

Line 4: Between first "the" and "resources", insert "living marine"

Line 4: Delete "contiguous waters" and replace with "the Black Sea and connecting waters,"

Article I. THE COUNCIL

Line 5: Replace "IV" by "III"

Lines 2-3: Delete "Nations of the Organization that are members of the United Nations," and replace with "States as are members of the United Nations, any of its Specialized Agencies or the International Atomic Energy Agency"

Line 4: Replace "IX" by "XI"

Line 5: Replace "nations" by "States"

Line 6: Between "Nations" and "as" insert ", any of its Specialized Agencies or the International Atomic Energy Agency"

Article II. ORGANIZATION

7. Lines 4-5: Delete "subject to confirmation by the Council of the Organization." See Article VII.

Article III. FUNCTIONS (new text)

The purpose of the Council shall be to promote the development, conservation, rational management and best utilization of living marine resources, and to these ends it shall have the following functions and responsibilities:

a) To keep under review the state of these resources, including their abundance and the level of their exploitation, as well as the state of the fisheries based thereon;

b) To formulate and recommend, in accordance with the provisions of Article V, appropriate measures:

i) For the conservation and rational management of living marine resources, including measures:

Regulating fishing methods and fishing gear,

Prescribing minimum sizes for individuals of specified species,

Establishing open and closed fishing seasons and areas,

Regulating the amount of total catch and fishing effort and their allocation among Members,

ii)For the implementation of these recommendations;

c) To keep under review the economic and social aspects of the fishing industry and recommend any measures aimed at its development;

d) To encourage, recommend, coordinate and, as appropriate, undertake training and extension activities in all aspects of fisheries;

e) To encourage, recommend, coordinate and, as appropriate, undertake research and development activities, including cooperative projects in the area of fisheries and the protection of living marine resources;

f) To assemble, publish or disseminate information regarding exploitable living marine resources and fisheries based on these resources;

g) To carry out such other activities as may be necessary for the Council to achieve its purpose defined above.

Article IV. REGION

Line 1 Replace "IV" by "III"

Article V. RECOMMENDATIONS ON MANAGEMENT MEASURES (new text)

1. The recommendations referred to in Article III, paragraph b), shall be adopted by a two-thirds majority of Members of the Council present and voting. The text of such recommendations shall be communicated by the Chairman of the Council to each Member.

2. Subject to the provisions of this Article, the Members of the Council undertake to give effect to any recommendations made by the Council under Article III, paragraph b), from the date determined by the Council which shall not be before the period for objection provided for in this Article has elapsed.

3. Any Member of the Council may, within one hundred and twenty days from the date of notification of a recommendation, object to it and in that event shall not be under obligation to give effect to that recommendation. In the event of an objection being made within the one-hundred-and-twenty-day period any other Member may similarly object at any time within a further period of sixty days. A Member may also at any time withdraw its objection and give effect to a recommendation.

4. If objections to a recommendation are made by more than one third of the Members of the Council, the other Members shall be relieved forthwith of any obligation to give effect to that recommendation; nevertheless any or all of them may agree among themselves to give effect to it.

5. The Chairman of the Council shall notify each Member immediately upon receipt of each objection or withdrawal of objection.

Article VI. REPORTS

(Text based on present Article IV, k))

The Council shall transmit, after each session, to the Director-General of the Organization, a report embodying its views, recommendations and decisions, and make such other reports to the Director-General of the Organization as may seem to it necessary or desirable. Reports of the committees and working parties of the Council provided for in Article VII of the Agreement shall be transmitted to the Director-General of the Organization through the Council.

Article VII. COMMITTEES, WORKING PARTIES AND SPECIALISTS

(Text of present Article II without change)

Article VIII. COOPERATION WITH INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

(Text without change)

Article IX. EXPENSES

1. Line 3: Replace "III" by "VII"

4. Lines 2-3: Replace "IV, paragraphs d) and e)" by "III, paragraph e)"

Article X. AMENDMENTS

(Text without change)

Article XI. ACCEPTANCE

2. Line 2: Delete "nations" and replace with "States"

Line 2: Between "Nations" and "as" insert ", any of its Specialized Agencies or the International Atomic Energy Agency"

Article XII. ENTRY INTO FORCE

(Text without change)

Article XIII. TERRITORIAL APPLICATION

Line 4: Replace "XII" by "XIV"

Article XIV. WITHDRAWAL

(Text without change)

Article XV. INTERPRETATION AND SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES

(Text without change)

Article XVI. TERMINATION

(Text without change)

Article XVIL CERTIFICATION AND REGISTRATION

Line 4: Between "Session" and "of' insert "and on the 1st day of July one thousand nine hundred and seventy-six by the Thirteenth Session"

Authentic texts of the amendments: English, French and Spanish.

Certified statement was registered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on 26 April 1978.