GFCM definition
Examples of GFCM in a sentence
At the third regular session following regular session of the Commission during which the Executive Secretary was selected, or at the fourth regular session following the selection of the Executive Secretary, in the case in which selection took place at an extraordinary session of the Commission, selection of the next Executive Secretary should be placed on the GFCM agenda.
The name of the candidate selected by the Commission in accordance with the above procedure is proposed by the GFCM Chair to the FAO Director-General so that he can appoint the new Secretary.
The Director-General of FAO sees that the vacancy announcement is duly posted on the FAO and GFCM Websites and is publicized elsewhere, as appropriate, in accordance with the additional guidelines of the Commission.
In 2006, the GFCM declared three areas as Fisheries Restricted Areas to protect corals, cold hydrocarbon seeps and seamounts.
The Commission shall transmit this list to the GFCM Secretariat by 30 November of each year.
Member States shall transmit to the GFCM Secretariat and to the Commission no later than 30 November 2018 the list of designated ports.
Member States may carry out inspection and surveillance activities in the framework of an International Joint Inspection and Surveillance Scheme (‘the Scheme’) covering the waters outside national jurisdiction in GFCM geographical subareas 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16, as defined in Annex I (‘the inspection and surveillance area’).
The European Community acceded to the GFCM on 16 June 1998 through Decision 98/416/EC1.
As a result, a set of information of the VMS was shared with the GFCM.
The Contracting Parties to the GFCM endorsed the "Amended Agreement for the establishment of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean" at the GFCM 38 Annual Session on 19-24 May 2014.