(g) To extend its good offices in assisting its Members to secure essential material and equipment; 



(h) To report upon such questions relating to oceanographical, biological, and other technical problems 

 as may be recommended to it by Members or by the FAO or other international, national or private 

 organizations with related interests; 



(i) To transmit biennially to the FAO Director-General a report embodying its views, recommendations, 

 and decisions, and make such other reports to the FAO Director-General as may seem to it necessary or 

 desirable.^ ^^ 



(3.) Budget Each member government undertakes to pay the expenses of its delegates, alternates, 

 experts, and advisors arising out of the attendance at Council sessions, the expenses of its representatives 

 on Council committees and working Parties and the expenses of research or development projects 

 undertaken by it, even upon the Council's recommendation.'*' The expenses of the Secretariat, 

 including publications and communications, and of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and the immediately 

 retired Chairman of the Council (who act as Council's Executive Committee), when performing duties 

 connected with its work during intervals between its sessions, are budgeted and paid by FAO."" The 

 expenses incurred in connection with co-operative research or development projects are paid by the 

 Members in the form and proportion to which they agree.* ' * The expenses of experts invited, with the 

 concurrence of the FAO Director-General, to attend meetings of the Council, committees or working 

 Parties in their individual capacity are budgeted and paid by FAO.' '^ 



(4.) Dispute-Settlement Machinery Any dispute regarding the interpretation or appUcation of the 

 Agreement, if not settled by the Council, must be referred to a committee composed of one member 

 appointed by each of the Parties to the dispute and in addition an independent chairman chosen by the 

 members of the committee. The recommendations of such a committee, while not binding in character, 

 become the basis for renewed consideration by the Parties concerned with the matter giving rise to the 

 disagreement. If as a result of this procedure the dispute is not settled, it shall be referred to the 

 International Court of Justice in accordance with the Statute of the Court, unless the Parties to the 

 disagreement agree to another method of settlement. 



(5.) Activities The Council, of course, has no regulatory powers, but coordinates and reports on 

 research carried on by members in the area. 



b. Indian Ocean Fishery Commission and Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic These are 

 two newly formed FAO regional fishery bodies which, as of September 1, 1968, have not had their first 

 meetings, but which the United States will join. 



c. The Advisory Committee on Marine Resources Research''^ The Advisory Committee (ACMRR) 

 was estabUshed by FAO in 1961. It is composed of a group of experts, appointed in their individual 

 capacity, to advise FAO on marine fishery research and dissemination, interpretation and apphcation of 

 the results of such research, with special attention to the fishery aspects of oceanographic research, for 



'**/d. Art. IV, V. 

 *®'W., Art. VII (1), (3). 

 ""W., Art. VII (2). 

 '^'/d, Alt. VII(4). 

 '^^M, Art. VII (5). 



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