Sixth Meeting of the SPRFMO Commission (COMM6) was  held in Lima, Peru, from 30 January to 3 February 2018, with the 5th meeting of the Compliance and Technical Committee (CTC5) taking place immediately before, on 26-28 January 2018. The venue of the meeting was the JW Marriot Hotel Lima, located at Malecon de la Reserva 615, Miraflores Lima, Lima 18, Peru. 

Registration for the meeting has now closed and General information for delegates was made available.  A website with helpful local information for delegates was created by the host and can be accessed here: https://infomeetingperu.com/ 

For any enquiries, please contact the SPRFMO Secretariat on secretariat@sprfmo.int.

Meeting Documents

• COMM6-Doc01 Provisional Agenda
• COMM6-Doc01supp Annotated Provisional Agenda
• COMM6-Doc02_rev2 List of Documents and related table
• COMM6-Doc03_rev1 Draft Annual Report of the Commission
• COMM6-Doc04 Workplan for the SC (to be developed during the meeting)
• COMM6-Doc05 IUU List (to be developed during the meeting)
• COMM6-Doc06 Final Compliance Report (to be developed during the meeting)
• COMM6-Doc07_rev1  Scientific Committee's advice on the Cook Islands Exploratory Fishing proposal
• COMM6-Doc08  (19 January 2018) New Zealand report on the Status of the Convention

 

Proposals

Discussed at the CTC meeting:

• COMM6-Prop01  EU proposal to amend CMM 06-2017 VMS (tracked-changes)
• COMM6-Prop02  USA proposal to create a CMM for the SPRFMO Observer Programme
• COMM6-Prop03_rev1  Cook Islands proposal for a CMM on Exploratory Pot Fishing in the SPRFMO Area
• COMM6-Prop04_rev1  Vanuatu proposal to amend CMM 01-2017 on Jack Mackerel (tracked-changes)
• COMM6-Prop05  New Zealand-Australia proposal for a new CMM on Bottom Fishing (WITHDRAWN, refer to COMM6-INF09)
• COMM6-Prop06  European Union proposal to amend CMM 10-2017 on the establishment of a CMS in the SPRFMO Area (tracked-changes)
• COMM6-Prop07  USA proposal for a new CMM on High Seas Boarding and Inspection
• COMM6-Prop08  Korea proposal to amend CMM 12-2017 on Transhipment (WITHDRAWN, refer to COMM6-INF10)
• COMM6-Prop09  New Zealand proposal for consequential amendments to CMM 13-2016 on Exploratory Fisheries (WITHDRAWN, refer COMM6-INF09)
  

Discussed at the FAC meeting:

• COMM6-Prop10  Chairperson's proposal to amend the Budget Formula (tracked-changes)
• COMM6-Prop11_rev1  Chairperson's proposal to amend the Financial Regulations (tracked-changes)
• COMM6-Prop12_rev1  Chairperson's proposal to amend the Staff Regulations (tracked-changes)
• COMM6-Prop13  Chairperson's proposal for an Internship and Secondment policy for SPRFMO

Discussed at the Commission Meeting:

• COMM6-Prop14  European Union-Australia proposal for a Decision regarding the 1st SPRFMO Performance Review
• COMM6-Prop15  European Union proposal to amend the Rules of Procedure (tracked-changes)

Reports

• SC5-Report  Report of the 5th Scientific Committee Meeting
                        Advice on the Cook Islands exploratory  fishery proposal  (refer COMM6-Doc07_rev1)
  

• FAC5-Report  Report of the 5th Finance and Administration Committee Meeting
• CTC5-Report  Report of the 5th  Compliance and Technical Committee Meeting

Information Papers

• COMM6-INF01  Tentative Meeting Program and Timetable
• COMM6-INF02  The Secretariat’s Administrative Report
• COMM6-INF03  Catch data submitted to the Secretariat
• COMM6-INF04  SPRFMO List of Authorised and Active vessels
• COMM6-INF05_rev1  Background to the proposal for a new Bottom fishing CMM
• COMM6-INF06  Additional information relating to the proposal to amend the Jack mackerel CMM
• COMM6-INF07  Background to the proposal for a new Exploratory Fishery
• COMM6-INF08  The current Implementation reports template (Annex II of CMM 10-2017, CMS)
• COMM6-INF09  (19 January 2018) New Zealand-Australia proposal for a new CMM on Bottom Fishing
• COMM6-INF10 (22 January 2018) Korea's proposal top amend CMM 12-2017 on Transhipment

Information Documents submitted by Observers

• COMM6-OBS01  NZHSFG Comments on the proposed SPRFMO Draft Bottom fishing CMM (Prop-05)
• COMM6-OBS02  (DSCC Briefing for the 6th SPRFMO Commission meeting
• COMM6-OBS03   CPPS: Proposal for a Memorandum of Understanding between the CPPS and SPRFMO

Useful Links

• Report of COMM5 (Adelaide, Australia, 2017)
• SPRFMO Convention
• Rules of Procedure