Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the North-East Atlantic Fisheries

 

Article 16

1. Each Contracting Party shall inform the Commission of its legislative
measures and of any agreements which it may have concluded, in so far as
those measures and agreements relate to the conservation and utilization
of fishery resources in the Convention area.

2. Each Contracting Party shall furnish on the request of the Commission
any available scientific and statistical information needed for the
purposes of this Convention and such additional information as may be
required under Article 9.

Article 17

1. Each Contracting Party shall pay the expenses of its own delegation to
all meetings held under this Convention.

2. At its first meeting the Commission shall adopt a budget for its first
financial year. At this meeting the Commission may also, as appropriate,
adopt a budget for the second financial year.

3. At each annual session the Commission shall adopt a budget for the
following financial year and a budget estimate for the financial year
following thereafter. A draft budget and draft budget estimate shall be
submitted by the President of the Commission to the Contracting Parties
not less than 40 days before the meeting of the Commission at which they
are to be considered.

4. The Commission shall determine the contributions due from each
Contracting Party under the annual budgets according to the following
formula:

(a) one-third of the budget shall be divided equally among the
Contracting Parties;

(b) two-thirds of the budget shall be divided among the Contracting
Parties in proportion to their nominal catches in the Convention area, on
the basis of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
definitive catch statistics for the calendar year ending not more than 24
and not less than 18 months before the beginning of the budget year;

(c) however, the annual contribution of any Contracting Party which
has a population of less than 300 000 inhabitants shall be limited to a
maximum of 5% of the total budget. When this contribution is so limited,
the remaining part of the budget shall be divided among the other
Contracting Parties in accordance with subparagraphs (a) and (b). This
rule shall be effective for the first five budget years of the Commission
and thereafter it shall be subject to annual review by the Commission
which may change it by a decision adopted by a three-fourths majority of
all Contracting Parties.

5. The Commission shall notify each Contracting Party of the contribution
due from that Party as determined under paragraph 4 and of the date as
determined by the Commission by which this contribution shall be paid.

6. The contribution of a Contracting Party which has acceded to this
Convention during the course of a financial year shall, in respect of
that year, be a part proportional to the number of complete months
remaining in the year of the annual contribution calculated in accordance
with paragraph 4.

7. Contributions shall be payable in the currency of the country in which
the office of the Commission is located.

8. A Contracting Party which has not paid by the date determined by the
Commission its contributions for two years shall not enjoy the right of
casting votes and of making objections under this Convention until it has
fulfilled its obligations, unless, at the request of the Contracting
Party concerned, the Commission decides otherwise.

9. The Commission shall adopt rules for the conduct of its financial
affairs.

Article 18

By a qualified majority the Commission may subdivide the Convention area
into regions and may alter the boundaries and vary the number of regions
provided that the decision receives the affirmative vote of each
Contracting Party exercising fisheries jurisdiction in any part of the
area affected.

Article 19

1. Any Contracting Party may propose amendments to this Convention. Any
such proposed amendment shall be sent to the Secretary at least 90 days
prior to the meeting at which the Contracting Party proposes it to be
acted upon. The Secretary shall transmit the proposal immediately to the
Contracting Parties.

2. The adoption of a proposed amendment requires a three-fourths majority
of all Contracting Parties. The text of any proposed amendment so adopted
shall be transmitted by the Commission to the Depositary which shall
forthwith forward it to the Contracting Parties.

3. An amendment shall take effect for the Contracting Parties 120 days
following the date of the notification by the Depositary of receipt of
written notification of approval by three-fourths of all Contracting
Parties, unless any other Contracting Party notifies the Depositary,
within 90 days of the date of the notification by the Depositary of such
receipt, that it objects to the amendment, in which case the amendment
shall not take effect for any Contracting Party. A Contracting Party
which has objected to an amendment may at any time withdraw its
objection. If all objections to an amendment are withdrawn, the amendment
shall take effect for the Contracting Parties 120 days following the date
of the notification by the Depositary of receipt of the last withdrawal.

4. A Party which ratifies, accepts, approves or accedes to this
Convention after an amendment has been adopted in accordance with
paragraph 2 shall be deemed to have approved the said amendment.

5. The Depositary shall promptly notify the Contracting Parties of the
receipt of notifications of approval of amendments, the receipt of
notification of objection or withdrawal of objections, and the entry into
force of amendments.

Article 20

1. The Convention shall be open for signature from 18 November 1980 to 28
February 1981 by the following Parties: Bulgaria, Cuba, Denmark in
respect of the Faroe Islands, the European Economic Community, Finland,
the German Democratic Republic, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Portugal Spain,
Sweden and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It shall be ratified,
accepted, or approved as soon as possible and the instruments of
ratification, acceptance or approval shall be deposited with the
Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
referred to in this Convention as ‘the Depositary’.

2. This Convention shall enter into force upon the deposit of instruments
of ratification, acceptance or approval by not less than seven
signatories, provided that these include at least three signatories
exercising fisheries jurisdiction within the Convention area. If,
however, this Convention has not entered into force one year from the
date on which this Convention is opened for signature, but not less than
five signatories have deposited instruments of ratification, acceptance
or approval, including at least three signatories exercising fisheries
jurisdiction within the Convention area, these signatories may agree
among themselves, by special protocol on the date on which this
Convention shall enter into force; in that case this Convention shall
enter into force with respect to any Party that ratifies, accepts or
approves thereafter on the date of deposit of its instrument of
ratification, acceptance or approval.

3. Any of the Parties referred to in paragraph 1 which has not signed
this Convention may accede thereto at any time after it has entered into
force in accordance with paragraph 2.

4. Any State not referred to in paragraph 1, except a Member State of the
European Economic Community, may accede to this Convention at any time
after it has entered into force in accordance with paragraph 2, provided
that an application for accession of that State meets with the approval
of three-fourths of all the Contracting Parties.

An application for accession shall be addressed in writing to the
Depositary which shall notify all Contracting Parties thereof. The
application is approved if within 90 days from the date of such
notification three-fourths of all the Parties in respect of which this
Convention has already entered into force by that date have notified the
Depositary of their approval of the application.

The Depositary shall notify the State applying for accession and all
Contracting Parties of the result of the application.

5. Accession shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument of
accession with the Depositary and shall take effect on the date of its
receipt. As from that date any Party which accedes to this Convention
shall be bound by the recommendations which are, at the time of its
accession, binding on all the other Contracting Parties as well as by any
other recommendations which are, at that time, binding on one or more of
the Contracting Parties and are not specifically excluded by the acceding
Party in its instrument of accession.

6. The Depositary shall inform all signatories and all acceding Parties
of all instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession
deposited, and shall notify signatories of the date and the Parties in
respect of which this Convention enters into force.

7. The Depositary shall call the first meeting of the Commission as soon
as practicable after the entry into force of this Convention and shall
communicate the provisional agenda to each Contracting Party.

Article 21

At any time after two years from the date on which this Convention has
entered into force with respect to a Contracting Party, that Party may
denounce the Convention by means of a notification in writing addressed
to the Depositary. Any such denunciation shall take effect twelve months
after the date of its receipt, and shall be notified to the Contracting
Parties by the Depositary.

Article 22

This Convention, of which the English and French texts are equally
authentic, shall be deposited with the Government of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Depositary shall transmit duly
certified copies to the signatories and acceding Parties, and shall
register the Convention in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of
the United Nations.

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