Examples of Fish Stocks Agreement in a sentence
Encouraged Signatory States to become contracting parties to global fisheries agreements such as the UN Fish Stocks Agreement (1995) and the FAO Compliance Agreement (1993) and to implement the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (1995).
The paragraph is modelled upon article 4 of the Fish Stocks Agreement, as it also provides for the interpretation and application of the agreement in the context and in a manner which is consistent with UNCLOS.
In particular, specific reference should be made to the 1995 Fish Stocks Agreement, which as a consequence of its entry into force led to the informal meeting of States parties to that Agreement.
As for the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks (the 1995 Fish Stocks Agreement), one new instrument of accession hasbeen deposited by Cyprus since the issuance of the main annual report.
Serbia declared its intention, before its accession to the EU, to ratify and be a party of the United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement, the 1993 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) compliance agreement and the 2009 FAO Port State Agreement.As Serbia does not have access to the sea and does not have any maritime fisheries activities, substantial parts of the acquis within chapter 13 “Fisheries” will not require particular implementation efforts.
Article 47 (1) of the 1995 United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement stipulates that in cases where an international organization referred to in annex IX, article 1, to the Convention does not have competence over all the matters governed by the Agreement, annex IX to the Convention (with the exception of article 2, first sentence, and article 3 (1)) shall apply mutatis mutandis to participation by such international organization in the Agreement.
As indicated in paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 56/13, the purposes and objectives of the informal meeting of States parties are to contribute to the subregional, regional and global implementation of the Fish Stocks Agreement.
In a major development, the European Community and its 15 member States2 ratified the 1995 United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement on 19 December 2003, by depositing their respective instruments with the Secretary-General.
Since the issuance of the main annual report, no States have made a declaration or statement pursuant to article 30, paragraphs 3 and 4, of the 1995 Fish Stocks Agreement.
As to the periodicity of the future General Assembly resolutions on fisheries-related issues, many delegates noted the heavy schedule of that body for its regular session in fall 2002, where it would have to consider simultaneously both the resolution on the 1995 Fish Stocks Agreement and the resolution on the global moratorium on large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing and associated issues.