Convention for the Conservation of Salmon in the North Atlantic Area

 

Article 15

1. Each Party shall provide to the Council available catch statistics for salmon stocks subject to this Convention taken in its rivers and area of fisheries jurisdiction at such intervals as the Council may determine.

2. Each Party shall compile and provide to the Council such other
statistics for salmon stocks subject to this convention in its rivers and of fisheries jurisdiction as required by the Council. The Council shall decide by unanimous vote the scope and form of such statistics and the intervals at which they shall be provided.

3. Each Party shall provide the Council with any other available
scientific and statistical information which it requires for the purposes of this Convention.

4. Upon the request of the Council each Party shall provide to the
Council copies of laws, regulations and programmes in force or, where
appropriate, summaries thereof, relating to the conservation, restoration, and rational management of salmon stocks subject to this
Convention in its rivers and area of fisheries jurisdiction.

5. Each year each Party shall notify the Council of:

(a) the adoption or repeal since its last notification of laws, regulations and programmes relating to the conservation, restoration, enhancement and rational management of salmon stocks subject to this Convention in its rivers and area of fisheries jurisdiction;

(b) any commitments by the responsible authorities concerning the
adoption or maintenance in force for specified periods of time within its territory or area of fisheries jurisdiction of measures relating to the conservation, restoration, enhancement and rational management of salmon stocks subject to this Convention; and

(c) factors within its territory and area of fisheries jurisdiction which may significantly affect the abundance of salmon stocks subject to this Convention.

6. The notifcations referred to in paragraph 5 (a) shall be sent to the Secretary not later than 60 days before the annual meeting of the Council. The notifications referred to in paragraph 5 (b) and (c) shall be sent to the Secretary as soon as practicable.

Article 16

1. The Council shall adopt an annual budget for the Organization.
The Secretary shall transmit a draft budget to the Parties, together with a schedule of contributions, not later than 60 days before the meeting of the Council at which the budget is to be considered.

2. The Council shall determine the annual contribution of each Party according to the following formula:

(a) 30 per cent of the budget shall be divided equally among the Parties and

(b) 70 per cent of the budget shall be divided among the Parties
in proportion to their nominal catches of salmon subject to this Convention in the calendar year ending not more than 18 months and not less than 6 months before the beginning of the financial year.

3. The Secretary shall notify each Party of its contribution. Contributions shall be paid not later than four months after the date of such notification.

4. Contributions shall be payable in the currency of the State in which the office of the Organization is located, unless the Council decides otherwise.

5. The contribution of a Party for which this Convention has entered into force during the course of a financial year shall for that year be a part of the annual contribution proportional to the number of complete months remaining in the year from the date of entry into force for that Party.

6. A Party which has not paid its contributions for two consecutive years shall not be entitled to vote under this Convention until it has fulfilled its obligations, unless the Council decides otherwise.

7. The financial affairs of the Organization sbah be audited annually by external auditors to be selected by the Council.

Article 17

1. This Convention shall be open for signature at Reykjavik from
2 March to 31 August 1982 by Canada, Denmark in respect of the Faroe
Islands, the European Economic Community, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and
the United States of America.

2. This Convention shall be subject to ratification or approval.

3. This Convention shall be open for accession by the Parties referred to in paragraph 1 and, subject to the approval of the Council, by any other state that exercises fisheries jurisdiction in the North Atlantic Ocean or is a State of origin for salmon stocks subject to this Convention.

4. Instruments of ratification, approval or accession shall be deposited with the Depositary.

5. This Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the deposit of instruments of ratification, approval or accession by four Parties, provided that among the four Parties are two members of each Commission and that at least one of the two members of each Commission exercises fisheries jurisdiction in the Commission area.

6. For each Party ratifying, approving or acceding to this Convention after the deposit of the requisite instruments of ratification, approval or accession under paragraph 5, it shall enter into force on the date of entry into force of the Convention or on the date of deposit of the instrument of ratification, approval or accession, whichever is the later.

7. The Depositary shall inform the signatories and acceding Parties of the deposit of all instruments of ratification, approval and accession and shall notify the signatories and acceding Parties of the date and the Parties in respect of which Convention enters into force.

8. The Depositary shall call the first meeting of the Council and the Commissions as as soon as practicable after the entry into force of this Convention.

Article 18

This Convention shall apply, insofar as the European Economic
Community s concerned, to the territories in which the Treaty establishing European Economic Community is applied and under the conditions laid down in that Treaty.

ARTICLE 19

1. Any Party may propose amendments to this Convention to be
considered by the Council. A proposed amendment shall be sent to the
Secretary not later than 90 days before the meeting at which it is proposed to be considered. The Secretary shall immediately transmit the proposed amendment to the Parties.

2. The adoption of an amendment by the Council shall require the
unanimous vote of the Parties present and casting an affirmative or negative vote. The text of an amendment so adopted shall be transmitted by the Secretary to the Depositary which shall immediately notify the Parties thereof.

3. An amendment shall enter into force for all Parties 30 days after the date specified in the notification by the Depositary of receipt from all Parties of instruments of ratification or approval.

4. A Party which becomes bound by this Convention after an amend-
ment has entered into force in accordance with paragraph 3 shall be
considered as a Party to the Convention as amended.

5. The Depositary shall immediately notify all Parties of the receipt of instruments of ratification or approval and the entry into force of amendments.

Article 20

1. Any Party may denounce this Convention with effect from
31 December of any year by giving notice to the Depositary on or before
the preceding 30 June. The Depositary shall immediately inform the other Parties of such denunciation.

2. Any other Party may denounce this Convention with effect from the same 31 December by giving notice to the Depositary within 30 days of the date on which the Depositary informed the Parties of a denunciation Under paragraph 1.

Article 21

1. The original of this Convention shall be deposited with ‘-the Council of the European Communities, referred to in the Convention as the “Depositary “, which shall transmit certified copies thereof to all signatories, and acceding Parties.

2. The Depositary shall register this Convention in accordance With article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations .

In witness whereof the undersigned, being duly authorized thereto, have signed this Convention.

Opened for signature at Reykjavik on 2 March, 1982, in a single original, in the English and French languages, both texts being equally authoritative.

 

Author: international

Mentioned in these Entries

Charter of the United Nations, Convention for the Conservation of Salmon in the North Atlantic Area.