recommendations shall not become effective as to any Party, but if presented by less than a majority, 

 the recommendation shall become effective for the non-objecting Parties."' 



3. Budget' '* 



The Convention fixes a uniform fee of $1 ,000.00 for membership in the Commission and another fee 

 of $1,000.00 for each Panel membership. It further provides for a supplementary budget in the event 

 that the proposed budget for joint expenses, approved by all Parties present and voting, exceeds the 

 usual contributions made by the States. The supplementary budget is then to be apportioned as follows. 



Parties contribute to the first third of the supplementary budget in proportion to their contributions 

 to the fixed part of the budget (the fees specified above). Contributions to the other two-thirds are 

 calculated on the basis of each Party's "round weight" of catches of Atlantic Tuna and tuna-Uke fishes 

 and the net weight of canned products of such fishes, relative to the sum of these weights for all the 

 Parties. 



While these provisions protect Parties from liability for payment of higher contributions than they are 

 willing to make, they enable a single Party to veto any supplementary budget. The financial clauses 

 indicate that the Commission will most likely be forced to depend on research efforts of each Nation's 

 scientists. 



4. Enforcement 



The Parties agree to take all steps necessary to ensure the Convention's enforcement, and to report to 

 the Commission the actions they have so taken."' 



Furthermore, the Parties agree to set up a system of international enforcement to be applied in the 

 Convention area, except the territorial seas and other waters, if any, in which a State Party is entitled 

 under international law to exercise exclusive jurisdiction over fisheries."* But it is left open whether 

 the enforcement system is to include the exercise of police powers by the Commission itself or whether 

 the individual Parties wiU exercise such powers with respect to each other. 



H. United Nations Fishery Organizations 



1. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Related Organizations"^ 



On January 1 , 1966, the Department of Fisheries of the FAO was estabUshed, headed by an Assistant 

 Director-General for Fisheries and consisting of the Fishery Resources and Exploitation Division and the 

 Fishery Economic and Products Division. The Department replaced, in a revised, broadened and 

 strengthened form, the Division of Fisheries which was part of FAO since the latter organization was 

 formed in 1945. The Department was formed to give the problems of fisheries greater attention in an 

 organization then dominated by concern for agriculture on land. It is also responsible for the 

 administration of technical assistance to, and special projects in, developing countries, designed to 

 improve their fishery capabilities. 



"^/d. Art. VIII (3) (f), (g). 

 *'*«., Art. X. 

 "'/d. Art. IX. 



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Unless otherwise indicated, the following account is based upon Report of the UN Secretary General, supra note 

 120, Annex XI, at 11-14. 



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