Traduction de «Conférence sur le droit de la mer » (Français → Anglais) :

The implementation of this Regulation does not affect the division of competence between the Union and the Member States or the obligations of Member States under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue, the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, the Convention for the Protection ...[+++] of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and other relevant international instruments.

The Community is a Contracting Party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and to the Agreement on the implementation of the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks.

H. whereas of the documents signed at international level and containing specific declarations on the need to reduce discards and by-catches, the EU agreed to the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, the FAO International Plan of Action for Reducing Incidental Catch of Seabirds in Longline Fisheries, the FAO International Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks, Chapter 17 of the United Nations' Agenda 21, the Rome Consensus on World Fisheries, the Kyoto Declaration on the sustainable contribution of fisheries to food security, the New York Agreement for the implementation of the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and United Nations General Assembly resolutions 49/118 of 1994 an ...[+++]d 50/25 of 1995, as well as the resolution of the 95th Interparliamentary Conference held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 15 to 20 April 1996, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD),

On the basis of the discussions that led to the adoption of the Guayaquil Protocol, the IATTC contracting parties agreed on the need to bring the organisation's statute into line with recent developments in the international law of the sea: the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, its implementing agreements, and the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (adopted in 1995 by the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organisation and including the 1993 Agreement to promote compliance with international conservation and management measures by fishing vessels on the high seas).

There is a broad tradition of applying the precautionary principle in relation to the exploitation of natural resources and conservation of species in international law, and it was a significant topic for debate in the course of Agenda 21 of the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development, in the drawing-up of the FAO Code of Conduct on responsible fishing and at the United Nations Conference on straddling and highly migratory stocks held in New York in July 1993, which is legally enshrined in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Regarding international traffic in transit, international law, particularly the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, stipulates, subject to certain reservations, that the vessels of all states have the ‘right of innocent passage’ in territorial waters.