The Committee on Environmental Policy, Use of Natural Resources and Chornobyl Aftermath Mitigation recommends that the Parliament should adopt in the first reading and in entirety the draft law “To amend the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area”

Information Department
05 October 2012, 15:04

The bill (Reg.No.0278) suggests adopt amendments to the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area, adopted during the fourth session of the Meeting of the Parties. The Agreement was adopted on November 9-12, 2010 in Monaco.

 

These amendments change the previous title of the Agreement (“Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area”) and specify some of its provisions (geographic scope of this Agreement, the notion of “sub region”, and the conditions of habitat protection, etc.).

 

Committee members stressed that adoption of the abovementioned amendments will ensure Ukraine’s readiness to strengthen cooperation with treaty countries in conservation of cetaceans.