governmental group with close contacts with working scientists; and (2) Advisory Committee on Marine 

 Resources Research (ACMRR) of FAO, which was created to insure that fisheries interests are taken into 

 account when basic studies of the ocean are planned. 



At the January 3-February 2, 1967 meeting in Monaco of IOC's Bureau and Consultative Council, the 

 Soviet Union proposed the immediate formation of a special working group on legal aspects of studies of 

 the ocean and utilization of oceanic resources. 



At its October 1967 meeting, the IOC passed three resolutions: 



(1) Resolution V-6 estabhshed an IOC Working Group on Legal Questions Related to Scientific 

 Investigations of the Ocean. This Group was charged with: 



(a) Considering legal aspects specifically related to scientific investigations of the nature and resources 

 of the ocean, including those related to the use of various means of collecting ocean data, with a view to 

 indicating legal principles which should facilitate and guide such research, carrying out this work in 

 coordination with the activities of the group of experts established at the 6th Meeting of the Bureau and 

 the Consultative Council to prepare documentation concerning the legal aspects of the use of ocean data 

 stations; 



(bj Preparing documentation concerning the effect of the law of the sea on scientific research and 

 proposals relating both to the contribution of scientific knowledge to the development of the law of the 

 sea, and to the participation of the IOC in the deliberations of the United Nations and appropriate 

 specialized bodies to assist them in taking proper account of scientific interests and scientific knowledge 

 in the consideration of the further development of the law of the sea; 



This resolution also advised the United Nations of IOC's readiness: 



to assist in the acquisition and distribution of scientific knowledge, including knowledge of the effect of 

 marine activities on the ocean environment, necessary for the optimum use of the seas in the interest of 

 mankind and, where required, for the sound development of the law of the sea. 



(2) Resolution V-19 recommended: 



that the organizations of the UN family involved or interested in pollution problems explore the 

 possibility of forming a joint group of experts to ensure that necessary scientific information is available 

 to those agencies responsible for conservation of resources, pollution control and abatement 



and instructed 



the IOC Working Group to continue development of programs on the oceanographic research aspects of 

 marine pollution, including monitoring aspects. If an alternative scientific group under the joint 

 sponsorship of the interested UN organization were to be established, the IOC would have to reconsider 

 the position of its working group on marine pollution. 



This position is embodied in the Report and Recommendations of the IOC Working Group on Marine 

 Pollution which the IOC accepted "with minor modifications." 



(3) Resolution V-22 called for the establishment of an IOC Working Group on Training and 

 Education in which SCOR and AMCRR representatives would be invited to participate. The resolution 

 indicated that the terms of reference of the Working Group might include the following: 



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