* Three more Members submitted their replies after the Meeting. As of 30 August 1999, a total of 19 Member States responded to the questionnaires.
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1. Do you concur with the APFIC Executive Committee (Para. 25
of the Report of the 67th Session) that it is time for the Member
States to make a collective and clear decision on the future of APFIC to ensure
that the Commission is an effective regional body? |
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2. If no, please explain: - |
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3. If yes, what should be the best option for APFIC to operate
in the future: |
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a) as an FAO statutory body under Article XIV of the FAO
Constitution, partially funded by its Members?; or |
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b) as an independent intergovernmental body to be operated 1 8
and funded by its Members? |
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4. If your answer is no to No. 1, do you agree with the
current functions of the Commission as given in Article IV of the APFIC
Agreement? |
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5. Should APFICs functions be further amended in order
to serve more effectively as a regional fisheries management body? |
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6. If yes, do you support the amendments to Article IV as
proposed but suspended at the Twenty-fifth Session? (Appendix F of the Report of
the 25th Session, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 15-24 October
1996). |
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7. Do you agree with the broad area of competence of APFIC as
given in Article VI, i.e., the Asia-Pacific area? |
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8. If no, what should be a more specific area of competence
for APFIC? |
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a) Marine fishing areas of Asia only; |
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b) Marine and inland areas of Asia; |
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c) Sub-regional areas, such as: |
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(1) Bay of Bengal; |
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(2) South China Sea; |
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(3) East China Sea and Yellow Sea; |
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(4) Asian inland areas; or |
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(5) Others (please specify): Australian waters |
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9. Do you concur with emerging issues in the fisheries and
aquaculture sectors in the region identified by the Commission as its last
session (Para. 49 of the Report of the 26th Session)? |
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10. If no, please indicate the issues that are most relevant
to your country: |
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1) Securing livelihood of rural and coastal populations
dependent on fishery resources; |
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2) Adoption and implementation of the Code of Conduct for
Responsible Fisheries; |
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3) Analysis of fishery trends and state of fish stocks;
and |
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4) Coordination of activities with other fishery bodies in
the region. |
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11. The Executive Committee has reviewed these issues and
recommended that the programmes of activity in the following areas be accorded
high priority by APFIC (Para. 29 of the Report of the 67th
Session): |
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a) Collection, dissemination and exchange of fishery
information and statistics; |
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b) Development of national fishery policies towards attending
the sustainability of fisheries and fishery resources; |
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c) Marine fisheries management and related research; |
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d) Development of responsible aquaculture; and |
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e) Acceleration of the transfer of appropriate technology and
capacity building in the fisheries sector. |
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Please rank the importance of the above subjects in accordance
with your countrys needs (by giving scores: 0, for lowest priority, to 5
for highest priority) for each subject. |
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12. The APFIC Secretariat presently has no budget and
technical staff to assist Members in implementing activities as required. Will
your government consider the possibility of providing a contribution to support
the activities of the Commission? |
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13. As a body under Article XIV of the FAO Constitution (item
3a), do you agree that Members should provide contributions to support the
activities of the Commission as specified in Article VIII of the APFIC
Agreement? |
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14. If yes, what should be the appropriate option(s) for such
a contribution? |
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a) Members to provide annual contributions based on an agreed
scale (if yes, see item 15); |
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b) Voluntary contributions by participating countries for
specific activities or projects (if yes, see item 16); |
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c) Financial support for their own representatives at sessions
of the Commission and its subsidiary bodies. |
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(Para. 61 of the Report of the 25th
Session) |
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15. If yes (for 14a), what should be the appropriate scheme
and scale of the Members contributions?: |
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a) Same scale as that for the contributions of Member Nations
to FAO (in percentages of agreed budget for the biennium); |
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b) Same scheme as that for the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission
(IOTC); |
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c) New scheme and scale based on a fixed 15 percent for the
Secretariats expenses and 85 percent divided among Members in proportion
to their per caput GNP, total fishery production and export earnings of
fish and fishery products; |
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d) Another scheme and scale to be formulated by the Ad hoc
Legal and Financial Working Group. |
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16. If yes (for 14b), would you support the establishment of a
trust fund for Members contributions to APFICs co-operative
projects? |
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17. In implementing regional co-operative projects, would you
support the establishment of a technical group in the Secretariat in addition to
those provided by FAO? |
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18. For future activities of the Commission, what should be
the role of its subsidiary bodies? |
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a) Maintain the current technical Committees to serve as fora
for discussion among Members and to formulate recommendations on fisheries and
aquaculture to the Commission; |
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b) Abolish the technical Committees and establish ad hoc
Working Groups of Experts to serve as technical arms and to report directly
to the Executive Committee or the Commission; |
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c) Revise the role and functions of the Executive Committee
(Article III and Rule IX of the APFIC Agreement and Rules of Procedure) to serve
more effectively as an administrative board of the Commission in the
inter-sessional period. |
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d) Other suggestions: - |
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19. As APFIC belongs to the Members and FAOs role is
that of a facilitator and coordinator, will you provide the travel expenses of
your delegate(s) to attend this important meeting of the Ad hoc Legal and
Financial Working Group? |
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