Convention on Sub-Regional Cooperation in the Exercise of Maritime Hot Pursuit (1993)

• Jurisdiction: South Africa
• Citation: 2017 JOLGA 150
• Author: None
• Published date: 22 May 2019
• Date: 22 May 2019
• Pages: 150-154

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ConVentIon on sUB-ReGIonAL

CooPeRAtIon In tHe eXeRCIse

oF MARItIMe Hot PURsUIt

PREAMBLE

The Governments of:

• the Republic of Cape Verde,

• the Republic of The Gambia,

• the Republic of Guinea,

• the Republic of Guinea-Bissau,

• the Islamic Republic of Mauritania,

• the Republic of Senegal,

Hereinafter referred to as ‘the Parties’;

BEARING in mind the relevant provisions of the United Nations

Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982;

REAFFIRMING their attachment to the objectives of the Convention

of 29 March 1985 establishing the Sub-Regional Fisheries

Commission;

TAKING ACCOUNT of the adoption, on 14 July 1993, of the

Convention on the Conditions of Access and Exploitation of

the Fishery Resources off the Coasts of the Member States of the

Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission;

CONSCIOUS of the necessity for joint efforts for an efficient

protection and surveillance of the maritime waters under their

respective jurisdiction;

CONVINCED that this collaboration should be made especially in

the field, through an effective coordination of the activities of

the structures in charge of the monitoring of the protection and

surveillance of fisheries, on land, at sea and from the air;

CONSCIOUS that this collaboration will be in favour of the

interest of all the members of the Sub-Regional Fisheries

Commission, which constitutes the natural framework for

fisheries cooperation among the States of the sub-region;

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1. General objectives

The objectives of this Convention are:

(a) to lay down rules and modalities for the strengthening of

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