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Convention area in order to determine the measures necessary for 

 their conservation. 



(b) Publishing- or otherwise disseminating reports relative to the 

 results of its findings and such other scientific reports and statistical 

 data as fall within the scope of this Convention, 



(c) Adopting, with respect to the Convention area, such regulations, 

 based on scientific findings, as are necessary to achieve the objectives 

 of this Convention. 



2. Each of the regulations adopted pursuant to paragraph 1(c) 

 above shall become effective with respect to the Contracting Parties 

 sixty days following notification of the regulation by the Commission 

 to each of the Contracting Parties, except that either of the Contract- 

 ing Parties may prevent entry into force of a regulation by lodging- 

 objection thereto with the Commission before the expiration of such 

 sixty day period. 



3. The Commission shall notify the other Contracting Party 

 immediately upon receipt of objection to a regulation. 



4. In discharging its responsibilities the Commission may estab- 

 lish working relations with any international, public or private insti- 

 tution or organization or any individual. 



5. The Commission shall submit annually to the respective Parties 

 a report on its work, together with any recommendations, and shall 

 also inform them, whenever it is deemed advisable, on any matter 

 relating to the objectives of this Convention. 



Article IV 



The Contracting Parties agree to keep as far as practicable all 

 records requested by the Commission and to furnish compilations of 

 such records and other information upon request of the Commission, 

 No Contracting Party shall be required hereunder to provide the 

 records of individual operations. 



Article V 



The Contracting Parties agree to cooperate with each other in 

 taking appropriate and effective action to enforce any regulations 

 which enter into force pursuant to Article III of this Convention. 

 Accordingly, the Contracting Parties agree as follows : 



1. Any national or vessel of a Contracting Party which engages 

 in operations on the high seas in violation of regulations which enter 

 into force pursuant to Article III of this Convention may be seized 

 by duly authorized officers of the other Contracting Party and 

 detained by the officers making such seizure and delivered as soon as 

 practicable to an authorized official of the country to which such per- 

 son or vessel belongs, at the nearest point to the place of seizure or 

 elsewhere as may be agreed upon. 



2. The authorities of the country to which such person or vessel 

 belongs alone shall have jurisdiction to conduct prosecution for vio- 

 lation of the regulations which enter into force pursuant to Article 

 III of this Convention and to impose penalties for such violation, 

 and the witnesses and proof necessary for such prosecutions, so far 

 as any witnesses or proofs are under the control of the seizing Coun- 



