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The Rules of Procedure may provide for decisions otherwise tha^n at 

 meetings of the Commission. I 



3. The Commission may appoint its own Secretary and staff. 



4. The Commission may set up, from among its own members and 

 experts or advisers, such committees as it considers desirable to per- 

 form such functions as it may authorize. 



5. The expenses of each member of the Commission and of his 

 experts and advisers shall be determined and paid by his own 

 Government. 



6. Recognizing that specialized agencies related to the United 

 Nations will be concerned with the conservation and development of 

 whale fisheries and the products arising therefrom and desiring^ to 

 avoid duplication of functions, the Contracting Governments will 

 consult among themselves within two years aft^er the coming into 

 force of this Convention to decide whether the Commission shall be 

 brought within the framework of a specialized agency related to the 

 United Nations. 



7. In the meantime the Government of the United Kingdom of 

 Great Britain and Northern Ireland shall arrange, in consultation 

 with the other Contracting Governments, to convene the first meeting 

 of the Commission, and shall initiate the consultation referred to in 

 paragraph 6 above. 



8. Subsequent meetings of the Commission shall be convened as the 

 Commission may determine. 



Article IV 



1. The Commission may either in collaboration with or through 

 independent agencies of the Contracting Governments or other public 

 or private agencies, establishments, or organizations, or independ- 

 ently 



(a) encourage, recommend, or if necessary, organize studies 

 and investigations relating to whales and whaling; 



(b) collect and analyze statistical information concerning the 

 current condition and trend of the whale stocks and the effects of 

 whaling activities thereon ; 



(c) study, appraise, and disseminate information concerning 

 methods of mamtaining and increasing the populations of whale 

 stocks. 



2. The Commission shall arrange for the publication of reports of 

 its activities, and it may publish independently or in collaboration 

 with the International Bureau for Whaling Statistics at Sandef jord 

 in Norway and other organizations and agencies such reports as it 

 deems appropriate, as well as statistical, scientific, and other pertinent 

 itif ormation relating to whales and whaling. 



Article V 



1. The Commission may amend from time to time the provisions of 

 the Schedule by adopting regulations with respect to the conservation 

 and utilization of whale resources, fixing (a) protected and unprotected 

 species; (b) open and closed seasons; (c) open and closed waters, in- 



