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"1. The Commission may, on the recommendations of one or 

 more Panels, and on the basis of scientific investigations, and 

 economic and technical considerations, transmit to the Depositary 

 Government appropriate proposals, for joint action by the Con- 

 tracting Governments, designed to achieve the optimum utiliza- 

 tion of the stocks of those species of fish which support interna- 

 tional fisheries in the Convention Area." 



Article IV 



1. This Protocol shall be open for signature and ratification or ap- 

 proval or for adherence on behalf of any Government party to the 

 Convention. 



2-. This Protocol shall enter into force on the date on which instru- 

 ments of ratification or approval have been deposited with, or written 

 notifications of adherence have been received by, the Government of 

 the United States of America, on behalf of all the Governments parties 

 to the Convention. 



3. Any Government which adheres to the Convention after this Pro- 

 tocol has been opened for signature shall at the same time adhere to 

 this Protocol. 



4. The Government of the United States of America shall inform 

 all Governments signatory or adhering to the Convention of all rati- 

 fications or approvals deposited and adherences received and of the 

 date this Protocol enters into force. 



Article V 



1. The original of this Protocol shall be deposited w^ith the Govern- 

 ment of the United States of America, which Government shall com- 

 municate certified copies thereof to all the Governments signatory 

 or adhering to the Convention. 



2. This Protocol shall bear the date on which it is opened for signa- 

 ture and shall remain open for signature for a period of fourteen 

 days thereafter, following which period it shall be open for adherence. 



In witness whereof the undersigned, having deposited their respec- 

 tive full powers, have signed this Protocol. 



Done at Washington this first day of October 1969, in the English 

 language. 



Note hy the Department of State 



Signatures Affixed to the Protocol to the International Convention for 

 the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Relating to Panel Membership 

 and to Regulatory Measures signed at Washington under date of 

 October 1, 1969 



FOR CANADA : 



A. E. Ritchie October 10, 1969 



FOR DENMARK : 



ToRBEN RoNNE October 15, 1969 



FOR THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY: 



Rolf Pauls October 3. 1969 



