Article 4 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Membership of the Commission shall be open to any Member State of any one of the organizations of the United States covered by the terms of paragraph 1 above shall acquire membership of the Commission by notifying the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, either directly or through the executive head of any organization of the United Nations system. Membership will take effect from the date of receipt by the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization of such notification. Any Member State of the Commission may withdraw from it by giving notice of its intention to do so to the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The date of such notice shall be that of its receipt by the Director-General. The notice shall take effect on the first day of the next ordinary session of the Assembly following the date of notice of withdrawal if the notice is given more than one year before the first day of said session; if the notice of withdrawal is given less than one year before the first day of the said session, it shall take effect one year after the date of notice of withdrawal. A Member State of the Commission which practises apartheid may be suspended from exercise of the rights and privileges entailed by membership of the Commission by decision of the General Conference. Exercise of those rights and privileges may be restored by decision of the General Conference. The Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization shall inform the Chairman of the Commission, the executive heads of the organizations of the United Nations system and Member States of the Commission of all notifications received by him under the present Article. Article 5 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The Commission shall consist of an Assembly, an Executive Council, a Secretariat and such subsidiary bodies as it may establish. The Assembly shall be the principal organ of the Commission and, without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 3 of this Article, shall make all decisions necessary to accomplish the purpose of the Commission. The Executive Council shall exercise the responsibilities delegated to it by the Assembly and act on its behalf in the implementation of decisions of the Assembly; for these purposes the Executive Council shall provide guidance to the Secretariat of the Commission. It shall convene as is laid down in the Rules of Procedure. It shall, in any case, convene when five of its members or the Chairman so request. During the course of each ordinary session, the Assembly, taking into account the principles of geographical distribution, shall elect: (a) (b) a Chairman and four Vice-Chairmen who shall be the officers of the Commission, its Assembly and its Executive Council; a number of Member States to the Executive Council, which number shall not exceed one quarter of the Member States of the Commission; each Member State so elected shall designate its representative on the Executive Council. The Chairman, the four Vice-Chairmen and the representatives of the Member States so elected shall constitute the Executive Council. (c) Members of the Executive Council may be accompanied by alternates and advisers. 6. (d) The Executive Council may not include among its members more than one national of a Member State. The term of office of the members of the Executive Council shall commence at the end of the session of the Assembly during which they have been elected and expire at the end of the next ordinary session of the Assembly. Article 6 The Commission may create, for the examination and execution of specific projects, committees or other subsidiary bodies composed of Member States interested in such projects, or of individual experts. Committees or other bodies composed of Member States or individual experts may also be established or convened by the Commission jointly with other organizations. Article 7 1. 2. 3. The Assembly shall be convened in ordinary session every two years. Extraordinary sessions may be convened under conditions specified in the Rules of Procedure. Each Member State shall have one vote and may send such representatives, alternates and advisers as it deems necessary to sessions of the Assembly. The Assembly shall determine the Commission's Rules of Procedure. Article 8 Subject to provisions in the Rules of Procedure regarding closed meetings, participation in the meetings of the Assembly, of the Executive Council and subsidiary bodies, without the right to vote, is open to: (a) (b) (c) representatives of Member States of organizations in the United Nations system which are not members of the Commission; representatives of the organizations in the United Nations system; representatives of such other intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations as may be invited subject to conditions to be determined in the Rules of Procedure. Article 9 1. 2. With due regard to the applicable Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Secretariat of the Commission shall consist of a Secretary and such other staff as may be necessary, provided by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, as well as such personnel as may be provided, at their expense, by the United Nations, the World Meteorological Organization and the International Maritime Organization and other organizations of the United Nations system. The Secretary of the Commission shall be appointed by the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization following consultation with the Executive Council of the Commission. Article 10 1. 2. 3. The programmes sponsored and co-ordinated by the Commission and recommended to its Member States for their concerted action shall be carried out with the aid of the resources of participating Member States, in accordance with the obligations that each State is willing to assume. The expenditure of the Commission shall be financed from funds appropriated for this purpose by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, from contributions by Member States of the Commission that are not Member States of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, as well as from such additional resources as may be made available by other organizations of the United Nations system and by Member States, and from other sources. Voluntary contributions may be accepted and established as trust funds in accordance with the financial regulations of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and administered by the Director-General of the Organization. Such contributions shall be allocated by the Commission for its programmes. Article 11 The Commission may decide upon the mechanism through which it may obtain scientific advice. Article 12 The Commission shall prepare regular reports on its activities, which shall be submitted to the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. These reports shall also be addressed to the Member States of the Commission as well as to the organizations within the United Nations system covered by paragraph 3 of Article 1. Article 13 The General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization may amend these Statutes following a recommendation of, or after consultation with, the Commission. Unless otherwise provided by the General Conference, an amendment to these Statutes shall enter into force on the date of its adoption by the General Conference. Convention for the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen, 1964 Done at Copenhagen 12 September 1964 Depositary: Denmark Primary source citation: 24 UST 1080, TIAS 7628 CONVENTION for the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea Preamble The Governments of the States Parties to this Convention Having participated in the work of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, which was established at Copenhagen in 1902 as a result of conferences held in Stockholm in 1899 and in Christiania in 1901 and entrusted with the task of carrying out a programme of international investigation of the sea Desiring to provide a new constitution for the aforesaid Council with a view to facilitating the implementation of its programme Have agreed as follows: Article 1 It shall be the duty of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, hereinafter referred to as the "Council", (a) (b) (c) to promote and encourage research and investigations for the study of the sea particularly those related to the living resources thereof; to draw up programmes required for this purpose and to organise, in agreement with the Contracting Parties, such research and investigation as may appear necessary; to publish or otherwise disseminate the results of research and investigations carried out under its auspices or to encourage the publication thereof. Article 2 The Council shall be concerned with the Atlantic Ocean and its adjacent seas and primarily concerned with the North Atlantic. Article 3 (1) The Council shall be maintained in accordance with the provisions of this Convention. The Council shall seek to establish and maintain working arrangements with other international organisations which have related objectives and cooperate, as far as possible, with them, in particular in the supply of scientific information requested. Article 5 The Contracting Parties undertake to furnish to the Council information which will contribute to the purposes of this Convention and can reasonably be made available and, wherever possible, to assist in carrying out the programmes of research coordinated by the Council. Article 6 (1) Each Contracting Party shall be represented at the Council by not more than two delegates. (2) A delegate who is not present at a meeting of the Council may be replaced by a substitute who shall have all the powers of the delegate for that meeting. (3) Each Contracting Party may appoint such experts and advisers as it may determine to assist in the work of the Council. (1) Article 7 The Council shall meet in ordinary session once a year. This session shall be held in Copenhagen, unless the Council decides otherwise. (2) Extraordinary sessions of the Council may be called by the Bureau at such place and time as it may determine and shall be so called on the request of at least one-third of the Contracting Parties. Article 8 (1) (2) Each Contracting Party shall have one vote in the Council. Decisions of the Council shall, except where otherwise in this Convention specially provided, be taken by a simple majority of the votes cast for or against. If there is an even division of votes on any matter which is subject to a simple majority decision the proposal shall be regarded as rejected. |