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          CONVENTION FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE
                       EXPLORATION OF THE SEA
                            (as amended)

Objective
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     To provide a new constitution for the International Council for
the Exploration of the Sea established in Copenhagen in 1902.

Summary of provisions
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     (a) The Council to promote and encourage research and
investigations for the study of the sea, and particularly its living
resources, to draw up programmes for this purpose and to disseminate
the results of such research (art. 1);

     (b) The Council to be concerned with the Atlantic Ocean and its
adjacent seas, and primarily with the north Atlantic (art. 2);

     (c) The Council to maintain working arrangements with other
international organizations (art. 4).

Membership
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     Open for accession to any State subject to the approval of three
quarters of the Parties.  Instruments of accession to be deposited with
the Government of Denmark.

                                                    Amending
                                                    protocol
                                                    --------

     Date of adoption         12. 9.1964            13. 8.1970
     Place of adoption        Copenhagen, Denmark
     Date of entry into force 22. 7.1968            12.11.1975
     Languages                English, French
     Depositary               Denmark

     Participant                               Entry into force
     -----------                               ----------------

     Belgium                                   22. 7.1968
     Canada                                    22. 7.1968
     Denmark                                   22. 7.1968
     Finland                                   22. 7.1968
     France                                    22. 7.1968
     Germany                                   22. 7.1968
     Iceland                                   22. 7.1968
     Ireland                                   22. 7.1968
     Netherlands*                              22. 7.1968
     Norway                                    22. 7.1968
     Poland                                    22. 7.1968
     Portugal                                  22. 7.1968
     Russian Federation                        22. 7.1968
     Spain                                     22. 7.1968
     Sweden                                    22. 7.1968
     United Kingdom of  
       Great Britain and  
       Northern Ireland                        22. 7.1968
     United States of America                  18. 4.1973

     *   Extended to Aruba with effect from 1.1.1989.

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