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IWC 1979a. Chairman’s Report of the 30th Annual Meeting Appendix 4: Reporting data relative to HumaneKilling. Rep. int. Whal. Commn 29 p.32.IWC 1979b. Report of the International Whaling Commission. Annex J: Report of the sub-committee on humanekilling techniques 29:90-2.IWC 1980. Report of the Technical Committee Working Group on Humane Killing.IWC 1981.Report of the Workshop on Humane Killing Techniques. IWC/33/15.IWC1985. Chairman’s Report of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting. Rep.int. Whal.Comm. 35:19-20.IWC 2001. UK Paper on Collection of Whale Killing Data. Submitted by the United Kingdom to the 2001IWC Working Group on Whale Killing Methods and Associated Welfare Issues. IWC/53/WKM&AWI5.RSPCA 2003. Report of the International Scientific Workshop on Sentience and Potential for Suffering inHunted Whales. Hosted by the RSPCA, 14-14th June 2001, London. Document submitted for information bythe UK to the IWC Workshop on Whale Killing Methods, 7-9 June 2003, Berlin.Footnotes1 Signatories comprising the governments of: the Union of South Africa, the US, the Argentine Republic, theCommonwealth of Australia, Germany, the UK, Northern Ireland, the Irish Free State, New Zealand andNorway.2 Resolution V, United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, 25th April 1958, Report of the ThirdCommittee.363 Article III, paragraph 6 of the Schedule to the ICRW.A REVIEW OF THE WELFARE IMPLICATIONS OF MODERN WHALING ACTIVITIES4 The objections of Japan and the Russian Federation remain.5 The Action Plan called for: details to be provided on equipment and methods used and for cooperation inimproving methods, investigation into criteria for determining death, assessments of cause of death in relationto observed time to death (using post-mortem data), provision of data on time to death and struck and lostrates in all whaling operations, including ASW (particularly noting the need for data provision and thereduction of struck and lost rates in the Greenland beluga and narwhal hunts), and for the development ofmethods for determining stress indictors in hunted whales.6 Calling for Denmark to provide all ‘additional information’ on the pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands tothe next annual meeting and expressing concern about the adequacy of the implementation of existingFaroese legislation.7 A resolution requesting further data on killing methods and a specific resolution referring to the killingmethods employed during the pilot whale drive hunt.8 Hosted by the RSPCA (RSPCA 2003).