North-East Atlantic Fisheries Convention

Article 11

1. In order that the recommendations made by the Commission for
the conservation of the stocks of fish within the Convention area
shall be based so far as practicable upon the results of
scientific research and investigation, the Commission shall when
possible seek the advice of the International Council for the
Exploration of the Sea and the cooperation of the Council in
carrying out any necessary investigations and, for this purpose,
may make such joint arrangements as may be agreed with the
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea or may make
such other arrangements as it may think fit.

2. The Commission may seek to establish and maintain working
arrangements with any other International organization which has
related objectives.

Article 12

1. The Contracting States undertake to furnish on the request of
the Commission any available statistical and biological
information the Commission may need for the purposes of this
Convention.

2. The Commission may publish or otherwise disseminate reports of
its activities and such other information relating to the
fisheries in the Convention area or any part of that area as it
may deem appropriate.

Article 13

1. Without prejudice to the sovereign rights of States in regard
to their territorial and internal waters, each Contracting State
shall take in its territories and in regard to its own nationals
and its own vessels appropriate measures to ensure the
application of the provisions of this Convention and of the
recommendations of the Commission which have become binding on
that Contracting State and the punishment of infractions of the
said provisions and recommendations.

2. Each Contracting State shall transmit annually to the
Commission a statement of the action taken by it for these
purposes.

3. The Commission may by a two-thirds majority make
recommendations for, on the one hand, measures of national
control in the territories of the Contracting States and, on the
other hand, national and international measures of control on the
High Seas , for the purpose of ensuring the application of the
Convention and the measures in force thereunder. Such
recommendations shall be subject to the provisions of Articles 8,
9 and 10.

Article 14

The provisions of this Convention shall not apply to fishing
operations conducted solely for the purpose of scientific
investigation by vessels authorised by a Contracting State for
that purpose, or to fish taken in the course of such operations,
but in any of the territories of any Contracting State bound by a
recommenation to which paragraph (1) of Article 8 applies, fish
so taken shall not be sold or exposed or offered for sale in
contravention of any such recommendation.

Article 15

1. This Convention shall be open for signature until 31 March
1959. It shall be ratified as soon as possible and the intruments
of ratification shall be deposited with the Government of the
United Kingdom.

2. This Convention shall enter into force upon the deposit of
instruments of ratification by all signatory States. If, however,
after the lapse of one year from 31 March 1959, all the signatory
States have not ratified this Convention, but not less than seven
of them have deposited intruments of ratification, these latter
States may agree among themselves by special protocol on the date
on which this Convention shall enter into force; and in that case
this Convention shall enter into force with respect to any State
that ratifies thereafter on the date of deposit of its instrument
of ratification.

3. Any State which has not signed this Convention may accede
thereto at any time after it has come into force in accordance
with paragraph (2) of this Article. Accession shall be effected
by means of a notice in writing addressed to the Government of
the United Kingdom and shall take effect on the date of its
receipt. Any State which accedes to this Convention shall
simultaneously undertake to give effect to those recommendations
which are, at the time of its accession, binding on all the other
Contracting States as well as to any other recommendations which
are, at that time, binding on one or more of the Contracting
States and are not specifically excluded by the acceding State in
its notice of accession.

4. The Government of the United Kingdom shall inform all
signatory and acceding States of all ratifications deposited and
accessions received and shall notify signatory States of the date
and the States in respect of which this Convention enters into
force.

Article 16

1. In respect of each State Party to this Convention, the
provisions of Articles 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 and Annexes I, II and III
of the Convention for the Regulation of the Meshes of Fishing
Nets and the Size Limits of Fish, signed at London, on 5 April
1946, as amended by decisions made under paragraph (10) of
Article 12 of that Convention, shall remain in force but shall be
deemed for the purposes of the present Convention to be a
recommendation made and given effect without objection under this
Convention as from the date of its entry into force in respect of
that State within the area covered by the 1946 Convention;
provided that in the period of two years after the coming into
force of this Convention, any Contracting State may, on giving
twelve months’ written notice to the Government of the United
Kingdom, withdraw from the whole or any part of the said
recommendation. If a Contracting State has, in accordance with
the provisions of this Article, given notice of its withdrawal
from a part of the said recommendation, any other Contracting
State may, with effect from the same date, give notice of its
withdrawal from the same or any other part of the said
recommendation, or from the recommendation as a whole.

2. The provisions of the Convention for the Regulation of the
Meshes of Fishing Nets and the Size Limits of Fish signed at
London on 5 April 1949, shall, save as provided in paragraph (1)
of this Article, cease to apply to each Contracting State to this
Convention as from the date of the entry into force of this
Convention in respect of that State.

Article 17

At any time after two years from the date on which this
Convention has come into force with respect to a Contracting
State, that State may denounce the Convention by means of a
notice in writing addressed to the Government of the United
Kingdom. Any such denunciation shall take effect twelve months
after the date of its receipt, and shall be notified to the
Contracting States by the Government of the United Kingdom.

In Witness Whereof the undersigned, being duly authorized
thereto, have signed this Convention.

Done in London this twenty-fourth day of January nineteen
hundred and fifty-nine in two copies, one in the English
language, the other in the French language. Both texts shall be
deposited in the archives of the Government of the United Kingdom
and shall be regarded as equally authentic.

The Government of the United Kingdom shall transmit certified
copies of both texts of this Convention in the two languages to
all the signatory and acceding States.

Author: international

Mentioned in these Entries

High Seas, North-East Atlantic Fisheries Convention.