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Resolution 1994-2

Tipo de documento
Resolution
Número de referencia
1994-2
Fecha
May 23, 1994
Fuente
UNEP, InforMEA
Estado
Adoptado
Materia
Especies silvestres y ecosistemas, Mar
Tratado
Convención internacional para la reglamentación de la caza de la ballena (Dic 2, 1946)
Reunión
46th Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC46)
Página web
crm.iwc.int
Resumen

AWARE of continued concern about adverse impacts on stocks of small cetaceans and the need for cooperation to conserve and restore threatened and depleted stocks;

RECALLING Resolutions IWC/42/26, IWC/43/29 and IWC/44/25 which recommend providing information to and continuing the work of the Scientific Committee with respect to inadequately documented or severely threatened stocks;

WELCOMING the helpful information and contributions provided by certain Governments on some species of small cetaceans;

CONSCIOUS of the sovereign rights of coastal states, as set out in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and without prejudice to the different views of Contracting Governments on the IWC's competence in relation to small cetaceans;

RECALLING that the 44th Annual Meeting set up a Working Group to Consider a Mechanism to Address Small Cetaceans in the Commission with a view to considering a consensual procedure for action on small cetaceans while respecting the differing views of Contracting Governments;

FURTHER RECALLING that Resolution IWC/45/29 referred to a mechanism for addressing small cetaceans in the IWC and identified topics on which to seek understanding for proceeding in these matters;

RECOGNISING that close contact and full participation from States in whose waters the relevant small cetaceans are found is a key element for the successful outcome of any efforts related to small cetaceans;

Now therefore the Commission:

COMMENDS the Scientific Committee for its work to date on identifying the problems facing small cetacean species and advising on ways in which those threats can be eliminated or minimised;

ALSO COMMENDS the Working Group to Consider a Mechanism to Address Small Cetaceans in the Commission for its confidence-building effort towards setting up a consensual procedure under which to operate in regard to small cetaceans;

FURTHER COMMENDS those Contracting Governments which have taken actions to conserve small cetaceans; INVITES all Contracting Governments to cooperate fully in the provision to the Scientific Committee of available information on direct takes, incidental takes, population estimates and threats to small cetaceans from degradation of the marine environment;

RECOMMENDS that efforts be made to continue to consider the problems facing small cetacean stocks, including reviewing developments on topics that have been addressed in the past, by

(a) engaging, with the assistance of the Secretary to the IWC, the coastal and range States concerned from the beginning in the current process of selecting stocks of small cetaceans for review;

(b) examining jointly with representatives from the coastal and range States concerned sound and reliable scientific data obtained in full cooperation with those States;

(c) assessing the condition of stocks jointly with representatives from the coastal and range States concerned;

(d) identifying any kind of assistance required by the coastal and range States concerned;

REQUESTS the Working Group to Consider a Mechanism to Address Small Cetaceans in the Commission to continue its efforts to address issues in a consensual manner, identifying problems in close liaison with the Small Cetaceans Sub-committee of the Scientific Committee, and to report to the Commission progress made at the 47th Annual Meeting;

REQUESTS the Scientific Committee to review its guidelines for the identification of stocks of small cetaceans for review at its future meetings, taking full account of the views of Contracting Governments expressed at the 46th Annual Meeting, and to present these, with any relevant explanatory information, to the Working Group to Consider a Mechanism to Address Small Cetaceans for consideration;

DECIDES to establish an IWC voluntary fund to allow for the participation from developing countries in future small cetaceans work and requests the Secretary to make arrangements for the creation of such a fund whereby contributions in cash and in kind can be registered and utilised by the Commission;

CALLS upon Contracting Governments and non-contracting Governments, intergovernmental organisations and other entities as appropriate, in particular those most interested in scientific research on small cetaceans, to contribute to the IWC voluntary fund for small cetaceans;

AGREES that there is much benefit in maintaining a cooperative dialogue with other intergovernmental organisations with responsibility for or expertise in relation to small cetaceans, in particular UNEP and the bodies created under the Bonn Convention. 46th A