Development of the Agreement. In June 0000, Xxxxxxxxx presented a paper titled “Southern Hemisphere Albatross Conservation” to the Fourth Meeting of the Coordinating Committee of the Group of Temperate Southern Hemisphere Countries on the Environment (the Xxxxxxxx Group) in Wellington, New Zealand (Australia 1998). Based on the recommendations of that paper, the meeting supported the development of a regional agreement under the CMS for Southern Hemisphere albatrosses and set up an ad hoc working group to identify the scope, function and content of an agreement text. The ad hoc working group held its inaugural meeting in Canberra, Australia, in June 1999, when it produced a potential framework for a regional agreement for presentation at the next meeting of the Conference of Parties of the CMS (CMS 1999a). It also considered the geographical scope of an agreement. Shortly after the Sixth Conference of Parties of the CMS, a one-day informal meeting was held in Paris, France, in January 2000 to discuss the development of an agreement. That meeting was attended by representatives of Australia, France, the United Kingdom and the Bonn Convention. Two formal negotiation meetings were then held in Hobart in July 2000 and in Cape Town, South Africa, in January–February 2001 to draft the text of an agreement to conserve albatrosses and petrels (Anon. 2000, 2001a; Xxxxxx & Xxxx 2001). The two meetings were attended by range states and nongovernmental organizations alike, notably BirdLife International. The final text of the Agreement, including an Action Plan, was adopted at the Cape Town meeting (Anon. 2001b). The Agreement’s Action Plan (Annex 2—Anon 2001b) covers these subjects: • Species conservation • Habitat conservation and restoration • Management of human activities • Research and monitoring • Collation of information by the Advisory Committee • Education and public awareness • Implementation The Action Plan describes conservation measures to be implemented by Parties. These call for a reduction in fishery-induced mortality, eradication of introduced predators at breeding sites, reduction of human disturbance and habitat loss and measures to reduce marine pollution. Significantly, following a proposal made by the United Kingdom at the Hobart negotiation meeting, the Agreement is not restricted geographically, although the albatross and petrel species that it currently lists on its Annex 1 breed in the Southern Hemisphere only (Table 1). There is no impediment to Parties agreeing to add ...
Development of the Agreement. If one of the Contracting Parties considers it advisable to extend the provisions of this Agreement in the field of trade-economic cooperation, not provided in this Agreement, then it gives the other Contracting Party the reasonable suggestion. After the adoption of this proposal the present Agreement may be amended in accordance with the laws of the State of each of the Contracting Parties.
Development of the Agreement. In order to avoid unnecessary delay to the return of Trust Assets to clients of the Company, the Administrators have developed the Agreement and the Offer in parallel with the appeal process regarding the scheme of arrangement described in section 7.2 (Development of a proposed scheme of arrangement). Further detail on the terms of the Offer and the provisions of the Agreement can be found in the “readers’ guide” at Schedule 2 to the Letter from the Administrators and at Part II of the Circular. The Administrators have worked closely with the Claim Resolution Working Group to establish the terms of the Agreement and the members of the Claim Resolution Working Group have expressed their unanimous support for the Agreement. In addition, representatives of the FSA have been invited to the various meetings and conference calls between the Administrators and the Claim Resolution Agreement Working Group in relation to the development of the Agreement. The FSA has been kept fully informed at each stage of the evolution of the Offer and has been provided with a copy of the Circular.
