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sul)staiuial exploitation ol such stock of Ush may participate in such decision 

 and recommendation. The decisions and recommendations sliall be reported 

 regularly to all tlie Contracting Parties, but shall apply only to the Conirading 

 Parties the national sections of which participated in the decisions and 

 recommendations. 



(iii) Rcc]uest the Contracting Party or Parties concerned to report regidarlv 

 the conservation measures adopted from time to time with regard to the stocks 

 of fish specified in the Annex, whether or not covered by conservation agree- 

 ments between the Contracting Parties, and transmit sucli information to the 

 other Contracting Party or Parties. 



(d) Consider and make recommendations to the Contracting Parties concerning the 

 enactment of schedules of equivalent penalties for violations of this Convention. 



(e) Compile and studv the records provided by the Contracting I'arties pursuant 

 to Article MIL 



(f) Submit annually to each Contracting Party a report on the Commission's 

 operations, investigations and findings, with appropriate recommendations, and 

 inform each Contracting Party, whenever it is deemed advisable, on anv matter 

 relating to the objectives of this Convention. 



2. The Commission mav take such steps, in agreement with the Parties concerned, as 

 w411 enable it to determine the extent to which the undertakings agreed to by the 

 Parties under the provisions of Article V, Section 2 and the measures recommended by 

 the Commission under the provisions of this Article and accepted by the Parties con- 

 cerned have been effective. 



3. In the performance of its functions, the Commission shall, insofar as feasible, 

 utilize the technical and scientific services of, and information from, official agencies of 

 the Contracting Parties and their political sub-divisions and may, when desirable and 

 if available, tUilize the services of, and information from, any public or private institu- 

 tion or organization or any jai'ivate individual. 



ARTICLE IV 



1. In making its recommendations the Commission shall be guided by the spirit and 

 intent of this Convention and by the considerations below mentioned. 



(a) Any conservation measures for any stock of fish decided upon under the provi- 

 sions of this Convention shall be recommended for equal application to all 

 Parties engaged in substantial exploitation of such stock. 



(b) ^Vith regard to any stock of fish which the Commission determines reasonably 

 satisfies all the following conditions, a recommendation shall be made as pro- 

 vided for in Article III, Section 1, (b). 



(i) Evidence based upon scientific research indicates that more intensive exploi- 

 tation of the stock will not provide a substantial increase in yield which can be 

 sustained year after year, 



(ii) The exploitation of the stock is limited or otherwise regulated through 

 legal measures by each Party which is substantially engaged in its exploitation, 

 for the purpose of maintaining or increasing its maximum sustained produc- 

 tivity; such limitations and regulations being in accordance with conservation 

 programs based upon scientific research, and 



(iii) The stock is the subject of extensive scientific study designed to disco\er 

 whether the stock is being fully utilized and the conditions necessary for main- 

 taining its maximiun sustained productivity. 



Provided, however, that no recommendation shall be made for abstention by a Con- 

 tracting Party concerned with regard to: (1) any stock of fish which at any time during 

 the twenty-five years next preceding the entry into force of this Convention has been 



