He Informed the meeting that^ on the basis of the previous 

 recommendation of the Bureau^ the General Conference of 

 UNESCO approved the convening in 1970 of a preparatory meeting of 

 governmental experts for which the above document would serve 

 as one of the major working papers. It was agreed that this 

 document should be published and should have the status of 

 having been prepared jointly by the Secretariats of UNESCO and 

 IMCO with the assistance of the group of experts and that it 

 would not in any sense represent the agreed opinion of the 

 Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. 



The Secretary further informed the Bureau and Consultative 

 Council that the group of experts was preparing another docu- 

 ment on the problems to be resolved in clarifying the legal 

 status of ODASj, including proposals for legal principles to 

 be included in an international convention on the subject. 

 Recommendation 9'11 was adopted under this Agenda Item. 



Recommendation 9-11 



The Bureau and Consultative Council recommended 

 that the revised document IOC/INF-IO8 "Legal Problems 

 Associated with Ocean Data Systems" be published in 

 the IOC Technical Series in time for distribution at 

 the Sixth Session of the Commission. 



The Bureau and Consultative Council further 

 recommended that the same document be given wider 

 distribution among all the Members of the United 

 Nations System as a part of the preparations 

 for the Preparatory Conference of Governmental Experts 

 on the Legal Status of Ocean Data Acquisition Systems. 



The Bureau and Consultative Council authorized 

 the Chairman of the Commission to transmit the docu- 

 ment in question, when ready in all four languages 

 of the Commission, to the UN Committee on the Peace- _ 

 ful Uses of the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor beyond 

 the Limits of National Jurisdiction for its informa- 

 tion. 



The Bureau and Consultative Council decided 

 that in preparation for the Preparatory Conference 

 of Governmental Experts, the Group of Experts on 

 Legal Status of ODAS should convene in September 

 to prepare an annotated draft Convention for this 

 Conference. This annotated draft Convention should 

 be circulated to Member States of the UN System for 

 comment. The revised annotated draft Convention 

 and the comments of Member States on this revised 

 text should be submitted to the Preparatory Conference 

 of Governmental Experts which would be convened by 

 UNESCO in cooperation with IMCO, FAO and WMO in late 



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