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RECOMMENDATION VI-6 



COORDINATION OF ANTARCTIC SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS 

 INVOLVING THE USE OF RADIO-ISOTOPES 



The Representatives, 



Recognizing that experiments invohing the use of radio-isotopes 

 may jeopardize subsequent scientific investigations in the same locality ; 

 Considering that : 



(1) prior notification of the use of radio-isotopes is necessary to 

 allow time for consultations between Consultative Parties whose in- 

 vestigators may wish to carry out experiments in the same locality at 

 a later date ; 



(2) interim measures are required before agreement is reached on 

 the controlled use of radio-isotopes in the Antarctic Treaty area ; 



Recommend to their Governments that, when experiments involving 

 the use of radio-isotopes in the Antarctic Treaty area are planned, 

 they should provide appropriate information on such experiments to 

 other Consultative Parties as early as possible, preferably six months 

 in advance, but in any event annually. 



RECOMMENDATION VI-7 



EFFECTS OF TOURISTS AND NON-GOVERNMENT 

 EXPEDITIONS TO THE ANTARCTIC TREATY AREA 



The Representatives, 



Noting the increase in recent years in the number of tourists and also 

 in the number of visitors who are not sponsored by the Consultative 

 Parties to the Antarctic Treaty area ; 



Considering that the activities of such visitors can have lasting and 

 harmful effects on scientific programmes, on the Antarctic environ- 

 ment, particularly in Specially Protected Areas, and on historic 

 monuments ; 



Desiring to ensure that such visitors are afforded the best view of 

 stations in the Antarctic compatible with the research programmes 

 being undertaken; 



Recalling paragraph 5 of Article VII and Article X of the Antarctic 

 Treaty and Recommendations I- VI and IV-27 ; 



Recommend to their Governments that : 



1. They should exert appropriate efforts to ensure that all tourists 

 and other visitors do not engage in any activity in the Treaty area 

 which is contrary to the principles and purposes of the Antarctic 

 Treaty or Recommendations made under it; 



2. They should inform, in so far as they are able, those responsible 

 for expeditions to the Treaty area which are not organized by a Con- 

 sultative Party but organized in, proceeding from, or calling at, their 

 territory, of the following : 



(a) that final arrangements to visit any station be made with 

 that station between twenty four and seventy two hours in 

 advance of the expected time of arrival ; 



