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any of the national catch entitlements for stocks covered by 

 the Agreement. The second requires the review of any time 

 limit or other administrative procedure, at the request of 

 either Party at any time after five years following the 

 Agreement's entry into force. Both provisions call for 

 mandatory binding dispute settlement by the Arbitrator 

 after a stated time for the end of negotiations — after the 

 first nine months of the ninth year of each ten-year interval 

 in which a Party requests an entitlement redetermination 

 and after six months from the date a Party requests review 

 of an administrative procedure. 



The entitlement redetermination provision contains a 

 number of special conditions, outlined as follows: 



(a) Each redetermined entitlement enters into force 

 in the fishing year following the redetermination and 

 remains in force until a subsequent redetermination. 



(b) In general, a redetermination by the Arbitrator 

 must reflect the average annual proportion of the stock in 

 question which occurs in the fishery zone of each Party, 

 except that the Arbitrator may moderate a change in entitle- 

 ment to take into account economic and social ramifications. 



(c) Notwithstanding the principle of proportionate dis- 

 tribution within the zones of the Parties, the Arbitrator's 

 ability to reduce an entitlement is limited by two types of 

 restrictions. First, there is a limit on the extent to which 



