Accession of the Community to the Agreement creating the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission

This proposal for a decision aimed to enable the Community to accede to the agreement creating the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission, concluded by the FAO (of which the Community was a member) in November 1993. This agreement sought to strengthen international cooperation to ensure the management and conservation of Indian Ocean tuna and related species and provided, in particular, for measures to be taken for the conservation and rational use of tuna stocks. Since Community fishermen traditionally carried out the fishing activities covered by the agreement, the Commission proposed to the Council that it should approve the Community's adoption of the agreement. �