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| Annual Commission Meeting |
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64/Status Current progress of the IWC64 Agenda |
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64/1 Provisional Agenda |
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64/2 List of Documents |
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64/3 List of Participants and Observers at IWC/64 Meeting |
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64/4 Cooperation with other Organisations |
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64/5 Audited Financial Statement for the year ended 31 August 2011 |
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64/6 Provisional Financial Statement for the year ended 31 August 2012 |
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64/7 Draft budget options for the single financial years 2012-13 and 2013-14,
and for the two year period 2012-2014 in case of a move to biennial meetings
(Secretariat) |
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64/8rev1 The South Atlantic: A Sanctuary for Whales (Brazil, Argentina,
South Africa and
Uruguay) |
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64/9 Proposed Schedule amendment to permit the catching of minke whales from the
Okhotsk Sea-West Pacific Stock by small-type whaling vessels (Japan) |
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64/10 Proposed Schedule amendment by the Russian Federation, St. Vincent and the
Grenadines and the USA |
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64/11rev2 Draft Resolution for IWC 64: Highly migratory cetaceans in the
high seas (Monaco) |
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64/12 Proposed Schedule amendment: Greenland catch limits (Denmark) |
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64/13rev2 Resolution 2012-X on the Importance of Continued Scientific Research
with regard to the impact of the degradation of the marine environment on the
Health of Cetaceans and related Human Health Effects (Germany, Austria, Belgium,
Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK) |
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64/14 Catches by IWC member nations in the 2011 and 2011/2012 seasons
(Secretariat) |
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64/15rev1 Draft changes to F&A Report Appendix 4 from Drafting Group (USA,
Australia, St Lucia, Japan and the UK) |
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64/16 Elections to the Advisory Committee (Secretariat) |
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64/17 Proposal to Establish an Ad Hoc Small Working Group to Seek Options for
Resolving Matters Related to the Small-Type Coastal Whaling (Japan) |
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64/18 Resolution on the Creation of a Fund to Strengthen the Capacity of
Governments of Limited Means to Participate in the Work of the IWC (Antigua and
Barbuda, Grenada, Kiribati, Mongolia, Nauru, Republic of Palau, St Kitts and
Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Tuvalu) |
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64/19 Information to Facilitate Discussion on Providing Assistance to
Governments of Limited Means (Japan) |
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Reports from Commission sub-groups |
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64/Rep 1rev1 Report of the Scientific Committee (Annexes) |
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64/Rep 2 Report of the Finance and Administration Committee |
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64/Rep 3 Report of the Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling Sub-Committee |
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64/Rep 4rev1 Report of the Infractions Sub-Committee |
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64/Rep 5 Report of the Conservation Committee |
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64/Rep 6 Report of the Working Group on Whale Killing Methods and Associated
Welfare Issues |
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64/Rep7 Report of the Working Group to Consider the Role of Observers |
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Opening Statements from Contracting Governments,
IGOs and NGOs. |
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NOTE: Links to a separate page with all documents listed |
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IWC Documents submitted to earlier meetings |
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63/9 Contact with the World Health Organisation (Secretariat) |
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Conservation Committee |
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CC1 Provisional Agenda |
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CC2rev1 List of Documents |
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CC3 Country Report on Shipstrikes (Australia) |
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CC4 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report, 2012 (Australia) |
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CC5 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report, 2012 (USA) |
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CC6 Report of the Standing Working Group on Whale Watching (USA) |
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CC7rev A Draft Conservation Management Plan Conservation Management Plan for
Southwest Atlantic Southern Right Whales (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay)
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CC8 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report, 2012 (UK) |
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CC9 Conservation Management Plan for Eastern South Pacific Southern Right Whale
Population (Eubalaena australis) (Chile) |
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CC10 Contamination Problems of the Gray whales (submitted by the Russian
Federation) |
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CC11 Cetacean Conservation Measures in the Pacific Islands Region, with a focus
on Oceania Humpback Whales (Australia) |
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CC12rev Report of the Standing Working Group on Conservation Management Plans
(Australia) |
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CC13 Overview of the work of the technical adviser assigned to the Secretariat
in relation to ship strike mitigation: October-May, 2012 (Secretariat) |
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CC14 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report, 2012 (France) |
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CC15 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report, 2012 (Argentina) |
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CC16 Overarching Principles and Best Practice Guidelines for Marine Mammal
Watching in the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR) (USA) |
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CC17 Report of the Regional Workshop on Marine Mammal Watching in the Wider
Caribbean Region (USA) |
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CC18 International Workshop on Maritime Transport and Biodiversity Conservation
(Spain) |
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CC19 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report, 2012 (New Zealand) |
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CC20 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report, 2012 (Mexico) |
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CC21 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report, 2012 (Chile) |
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CC22 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report, 2012 (Brazil) |
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CC23rev1 Proposal of the Republic of Panama for the establishment of Traffic
Separation Schemes (Panama) |
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CC24 Action Plan 2011-2016 (USA) |
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Background documents for the Conservation Committee |
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SC64O1 Summary Report of the Second International Conference on Marine Mammal
Protected Areas (ICMMPA 2), Martinique, 7-11 November 2011 |
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Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling Sub-Committee |
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ASW1 Provisional Agenda |
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ASW2 List of documents |
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ASW3 Quantification of Subsistence and Cultural Need for Bowhead Whales by
Alaska Eskimos (USA) |
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ASW4 Whale Hunting and the Makah Tribe: A Needs Statement (USA) |
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ASW5rev1 Report of the Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling Working Group |
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ASW6 Rationale of subsistence and cultural needs for Gray whales and Bowhead
whales by indigenous people of Chukotka in 2013-2018 (Russian Federation) |
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ASW7 White Paper on Management and Utilization of Large Whales in Greenland
(Greenland (Denmark)) |
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ASW8 Note on the Greenland needs statement
(Greenland (Denmark)) |
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ASW9 Aboriginal harvest of whales by Russian indigenous people in 2011 (Russian
Federation) |
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ASW10 Progress on Conversion Factors for the Greenland Hunt (Greenland(Denmark)) |
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ASW11 Bequian whaling – A Statement of Need (St Vincent and the Grenadines) |
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Documents for ASW Working Group |
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Background information for the Commission’s aboriginal subsistence whaling
working group (ASWWG) |
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ASW Technical Committee Reports (zip folder – may take a while to download) |
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ASW Resolutions (zip folder – may take a while to download) |
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Special Issue 4: ASW (zip folder – may take a while to download) |
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Chair’s Reports up to IWC28: ASW (zip folder – may take a while to download) |
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Chair’s Reports IWC34 to IWC48: ASW (external store) |
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Infractions Sub-Committee |
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INF1 Provisional Agenda |
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INF2 Annotated Draft Agenda |
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INF3 National Legislation supplied to the IWC – 2012 |
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INF4 Summary of Infractions Reports received by the Commission for 2011 |
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Working Group on Whale Killing Methods and Associated Welfare Issues |
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WKM&AWI1 Provisional Agenda |
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WKM&AWI2rev2 List of documents |
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WKM&AWI3 Report of the intersessional workshop on welfare and
recommendations for future work (UK) |
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WKM&AWI4 Summary of Activities Related to the Action Plan on Whale Killing
Methods (based on Resolution 1999-1) (New Zealand) |
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WKM&AWI5 Ethical Review of Animal Experiments – a global perspective by DJ Fry
(UK) |
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WKM&AWI6 Summary of Activities Related to the Action Plan on Whale Killing
Methods (based on Resolution 1999-1) (Russian Federation) |
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WKM&AWI7 Summary of activities related to the action plan on whale killing
methods (based on Resolution 1999-1) (Denmark (Greenland)) |
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WKM&AWI8 Report on weapons, techniques, and observations in the Alaskan
bowhead whale subsistence hunt (USA) |
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WKM&AWI9 Norwegian minke whaling 2011 (Norway) |
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WKM&AWI10 Summary of Activities Related to the Action Plan on Whale Killing
Methods (based on Resolution 1999-1) (USA) |
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WKM&AWI11 Summary of capacity building activities provided by the IWC to:
Argentina and Brazil, March, 2012 (Secretariat) |
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WKM&AWI12rev1 Proposal to address indirect human impacts on marine mammals of
the wider Caribbean region (Dominican Republic, France, Mexico, Netherlands, Panama
and USA) |
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WKM&AWIRep1 the report of the Provincetown workshop |
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Working Group to consider the role of observers at meetings of the Commission |
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OBS1 Provisional Agenda |
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OBS3 Summary of the Recent Development of Commission Procedures regarding the
Role of NGO Observers (Secretariat) |
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Finance and Administration Committee |
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F&A1rev1 Provisional Agenda |
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F&A2 List of documents |
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F&A3 Intersessional correspondence group on strengthening IWC financing (UK,
Australia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Germany, Monaco, USA) |
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F&A4 Submission to the Intersessional Correspondence Group on Strengthening IWC
Financing regarding segmented financial reporting (Secretariat) |
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F&A5 Elections to the Advisory Committee (Secretariat) |
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F&A6 Overview of the work of the technical adviser assigned to the
Secretariat in order to assist with reducing conflicts between cetaceans and
marine resource users: October-May, 2012 (Secretariat) |
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F&A7 Arrangements for Next Meetings (Secretariat) |
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F&A8 Letter from the Uruguay Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Secretariat) |
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F&A9 The IWC website (Secretariat) |
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F&A10rev3 Secretary’s Report on the Collection of Financial
Contributions for 2011-2012 (Secretariat) |
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F&A11 Reducing the Costs of IWC Meetings (Secretariat) |
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F&A12 Report of the Budgetary Sub-committee |
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F&A13 Quorum – Case study with information from IWC63 (Japan) |
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– Intersessional Group on Quorum (IG-Q) |
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IWC/2012/IGQ1 Review of the practices of a selection of Inter-Governmental Organisations
on quorums in the light of discussions within the IWC, with suggestions for a
way forward (Secretariat) |
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IWC/2012/IGQ2 Summary of responses to the quorum review document, and suggestions for
clarifications to the IWC’s rules and procedures (Secretariat) |
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IWC/2012/IGQ3 Draft Recommendations from the Intersessional Group on Quorum
(Secretariat) |
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– Intersessional Group on Biennial Meetings and
Establishment of a Bureau (IG-BB) |
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IWC/2012/IGBB1 Checklist of Actions for Moving to Biennial Meetings
(Secretariat) |
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IWC/2012/IGBB2 Checklist of Actions for Moving to Biennial Meetings: Summary of Responses
Received (Secretariat) |
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IWC/2012/IGBB3 Review of Bureaux and Standing Committees, with potential
recommendations for consideration by the IWC (Secretariat) |
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IWC/2012/IGBB4 Transitional Plan for Moving to Biennial Meetings (Secretariat) |
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– Intersessional Working Group on Provision of
Assistance to Governments of Limited Means (WG-AGLM) |
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IWC/2012/WGAGLM1 Options for Providing Assistance to Member Governments with Limited
Means to Participate in the Work of the IWC (Secretariat) |
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IWC/2012/WGAGLM2 Working Group for the Provision of Assistance to Governments of Limited
Means (WG-AGLM) (Secretariat) |
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IWC/2012/WGAGLM3 Working Group for the Provision of Assistance to Governments of Limited
Means (WG-AGLM): Recommendations for providing assistance (Secretariat) |
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Budgetary Sub-Committee |
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BSC1 Provisional Agenda |
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BSC2 List of documents |
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BSC3 Secretary’s Report on the Collection of Financial Contributions for
2011-2112 |
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BSC4 Options for agreeing a budget in the situation when the Commission meets
after the start of the Financial Year (Secretariat) |
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BSC5 Scientific Committee’s recommended budget for the 2012/2013 intersessional
period (Secretariat) |
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BSC6 Level of Press ad Observer Fees for 2012-2013 (Secretariat) |
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BSC7 Future Membership of the Budgetary Sub-Committee (Secretariat) |
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BSC8 SC Invited Participants 2012 |
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Presentations and additional materials |
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IWC Voluntary Fund for small cetacean conservation research (powerpoint) |
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