no 



SCAR may request additional information or material with 

 the approval of the Contracting Parties. 



{d) Contracting Parties shall provide to other Contracting 

 Parties and to SCAR at least 30 days in advance of departure 

 from their home ports, information on proposed sealing expendi- 

 tures. 



7. Sealing Methods 



(a) SCAR is invited to report on methods of sealing and to make 

 recommendations with a view to ensuring that the killing or captur- 

 ing of seals is quick, painless and efficient. Contracting Parties, as 

 appropriate, shall adopt rules for their nationals and vessels under 

 their respective flags engaged in the killing and capturing of seals, 

 giving due consideration to the views of SCAR. 



(b) In the light of the available scientific and technical date, 

 Contracting Parties agree to take appropriate steps to ensure that 

 their nationals and vessels under their respective flags refrain from 

 killing, or capturing seals in the water, except in limited quantities 

 to provide for scientific research in conformity with the objectives 

 and principles of this Convention. 



Such research shall include studies as to the effectiveness of methods 

 of sealing from the viewpoint of the management and humane and 

 rational utilization of the Antarctic seal resources for conservation 

 purposes. The undertaking and the results of any such scientific re- 

 search programme shall be communicated to SCAR and the Deposi- 

 tary which shall transmit them to the Contracting Parties. 



CONFERENCE ON THE CONSERVATION OF ANTARCTIC SEALS: STATE- 

 MENTS OF CHILE AND THE UNITED STATES CONCERNING THE 

 CONVENTION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF ANTARCTIC SEALS* 



[February 11, 1972] 



(Statements appended to the Final Act of the Conference on the 

 Conservation of Antarctic Seals, London, February 3-11, 1972) 



Addendum 



The following statement was made by the Representative of Chile : 



"The Delegation of Chile states that the reference to Article 



IV of the Antarctic Treaty contained in Article 1 of the present 



Convention signifies that nothing specified therein shall confirm, 



deny or impair the rights of the Contracting Parties as regards 



their maritime jurisdictions and their declared juridical position 



on this matter." 



The following statement was made by the Representative of the 



United States of America : 



"The Delegation of the United States of America believes that 

 the Convention should contain stronger provisions for the ob- 



*Reprodiiced from the text appended to the Final Act of the Conference on the Conserva- 

 tion of Antarctic Seals, London, Feb. 3-11, 1972. 



