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d. TCC6
i. implementing CMM 2008-01, including a high seas VDS;
ii.
iii.
iv.
port sampling;
implementing effective port State measures under the November 2009 FAO
binding agreement on port state measures to combat IUU fishing;
further work on monitoring compliance with CMMs;
v. reviewing the ROP and VMS programmes, including cost recovery;
vi.
vii.
viii.
developing a catch documentation scheme;
further discussing IUU provisions regarding ownership (3j), 120 days submission
deadline and criteria for satisfactory settlement; and
best practice in seabird mitigation measures.
AGENDA ITEM 15 - ELECTION OF OFFICERS
392. WCPFC6 approved the nominations by SC5 and TCC6 for the following officers:
Noan Pakop (Papua New Guinea) as Chair of the TCC; Dr Charles Karnella (USA) as Vice-
Chair of the TCC; and Pamela Maru (Cook Islands) as Vice-Chair of the SC.
16.1 Performance review
AGENDA ITEM 16 - OTHER MATTERS
393. WCPFC6 noted that because there is no budget for a performance review to be
undertaken in 2010, the review will need to be postponed for future consideration.
16.2 Extension of VMS to waters under national jurisdiction
394. Under Article 24(8) of the Convention, any Commission Member may request that
waters under its national jurisdiction be included within the area covered by the Commission
VMS. WCPFC6 was invited to consider the proposed application of the Commission VMS by a
CCM wishing to obtain position information for a vessel inside its waters under national
jurisdiction that is not part of its national VMS.
395. WCPFC6 agreed that this was essentially a bilateral issue between the CCM and the
Secretariat, and that an agreement to extend the VMS to waters under national jurisdiction
in this case in no way undermines the exclusive control of coastal States over their national
waters.
16.3 WCPFC5 Summary Report
396. PNG expressed grave disappointment in the WCPFC Secretariat in allowing certain
CCMs to manipulate the opinion of the WCPFC Legal Advisor regarding the application of the
Commission‘s CMMs to archipelagic and internal waters, and changing the initial draft of the
WCPFC5 Summary Report, as it was further noted that the Commission‘s area of competence is
the EEZs and the high seas, not territorial seas and archipelagic waters, quoting Article 56 of
UNCLOS.
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