1970 or early 1971. The Plenipotentiary Conference 

 on the Legal Status of Ocean Data Acquisition Systems 

 would be convened in late 1971 or early 1972. 



The Bureau and Consultative Council approved 

 the Recommendation of the 2nd Meeting of the Group 

 of Experts to circulate for comment the document on 

 "Problems to be resolved in clarifying the legal 

 status of ODAS" in Annex 1 of the report of the 

 2nd Meeting of the Group of Experts. It was also 

 decided that this document should be circulated to 

 all Member States in the UN System for comment. 



The Bureau and Consultative Council decided 

 that the membership of the Group of Experts should 

 be expanded to include representation of additional 

 legal systems. The Bureau was asked to consult 

 appropriate Member States informally for this purpose 

 and to add three or four experts to the Group. 



8. ill. Training and Education in Oceanography 



Dr. Fedorov introduced this item by referring to the Recommenda- 

 tions of the IOC Working Group on Training and Education, (Docu- 

 ment AVS/9/89U (10)/^ee Annex VlT/. He drew particular atten- 

 tion to Recommendation 7 proposing the establishment of a new 

 program of Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission research 

 and training fellowships o Dr. ¥. M. Cameron (Canada) asked in 

 what sense the proposed program would differ from the existing 

 UNESCO program. The Secretary said the new program would be 

 financed directly by Member States with rules more flexible 

 than those applicable to the UNESCO program and with the 

 award of fellowships being made by the IOC Bureau or a special 

 body established by the IOC for this purpose. 



Ambassador McKernan pointed out that the recommendations of 

 the IOC Working Group on Education and Training had overlooked 

 coordination of training programs in marine science of differ- 

 ent specialized agencies of the UN family; he referred in 

 particular to the recommendations of the ACMRR 5th Session 

 (FAO Fisheries Report Number 56). Professor Muromtsev (USSR) 

 stressed the necessity of including IGOSS-related training in 

 IOC training programs. 



Dr. J. Carranza (IOC Vice Chairman) , commented on the recommen- 

 dations of the Working Group and requested that new training 

 programs be organized on a regional rather than a national 

 basis. Dr. Carranza was asked to formulate the comments of 

 the Bureau on the recommendations of the Working Group o It 

 was agreed that any recommendation emanating from the Bureau 



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