Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00591:schedule:2:p22
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00591
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 2 (pt 22/32)
Character Range: 589504–592784

developing States.

Article 25

Forms of cooperation with
developing States

1. States shall cooperate, either directly or through subregional, regional or global organizations:

 (a) to enhance the ability of developing States, in particular the least‑developed among them and small island developing States, to conserve and manage straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks and to develop their own fisheries for such stocks;

 (b) to assist developing States, in particular the least‑developed among them and small island developing States, to enable them to participate in high seas fisheries for such stocks, including facilitating access to such fisheries subject to articles 5 and 11; and

 (c) to facilitate the participation of developing States in subregional and regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements.

2. Cooperation with developing States for the purposes set out in this article shall include the provision of financial assistance, assistance relating to human resources development, technical assistance, transfer of technology, including through joint venture arrangements, and advisory and consultative services.

3. Such assistance shall, inter alia, be directed specifically towards:

 (a) improved conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks through collection, reporting, verification, exchange and analysis of fisheries data and related information;

 (b) stock assessment and scientific research; and

 (c) monitoring, control, surveillance, compliance and enforcement, including training and capacity‑building at the local level, development and funding of national and regional observer programmes and access to technology and equipment.

Article 26

Special assistance in the implementation
of this Agreement

1. States shall cooperate to establish special funds to assist developing States in the implementation of this Agreement, including assisting developing States to meet the costs involved in any proceedings for the settlement of disputes to which they may be parties.

2. States and international organizations should assist developing States in establishing new subregional or regional fisheries management organizations or arrangements, or in strengthening existing organizations or arrangements, for the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks.

PART VIII

PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES

Article 27

Obligation to settle disputes
by peaceful means

 States have the obligation to settle their disputes by negotiation, inquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies or arrangements, or other peaceful means of their own choice.

Article 28

Prevention of disputes

 States shall cooperate in order to prevent disputes. To this end, States shall agree on efficient and expeditious decision‑making procedures within subregional and regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements and shall strengthen existing decision‑making procedures as necessary.

Article 29

Disputes of a technical nature

 Where a dispute concerns a matter of a technical nature, the States concerned may refer the dispute to an ad hoc expert panel established by them. The panel