Authorising Poland to ratify the amendment to the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in the Central Bering Sea

The European Parliament adopted by 613 votes to 3, with 20 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the draft Council decision authorising Poland to ratify, in the interest of the European Union, the amendment to the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in the Central Bering Sea.

Parliament gave its consent to authorise Poland to ratify the amendment to the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in the Central Bering Sea.

Poland is hereby authorised to ratify, in the interest of the European Union, the amendment to Article XVI.4 of the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in the Central Bering Sea to allow for the accession of regional economic integration organisations to the Convention.

It is recalled that Poland is a Contracting Party to the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in the Central Bering Sea. The Union is not a party to the Convention.

By decision of 11 April 2016, the Council authorised Poland to negotiate, in the interest of the Union, an amendment to the Convention to allow the Union to become a full party to the Convention. To this end, Poland proposed an amendment to the Convention to allow participation of regional economic integration organisations and to allow for the European Union to become party to the Convention. Poland proposed the said amendment to the Convention to the Depositary of the Convention in October 2016.