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This section contains the texts of the IWC Convention and Schedule, recent IWC Resolutions, extracts from IWC Reports and certain related international agreements

For a list of documents available on the IWC website for the 2002 meeting: click here.

Convention and Schedule
  
International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling

Schedule

List of parties
    

Resolutions from IWC 2002
  
IWC Resolution on Guidance to the Scientific Committee on the Sanctuary Review Process

      

Earlier IWC Resolutions
   
I. 53rd Annual Meeting, 2001

All Resolutions

Individual Resolutions (texts, background and links):

Resolution 2000-1 (on transparency)

Resolution 2000-2 (on whale killing methods)

Resolution 2000-3 (on Western North Pacific gray whales)

Resolution 2000-4 (on incidental capture)

Resolution 2000-5 (on commercial whaling)

Resolution 2000-6 (on Japanese Community-based whaling)

Resolution 2000-7 (on minke whales and special permit whaling)

Resolution 2000-8 (on expansion of JARPN II whaling)

Resolution 2000-9 (on interactions between whales and fish stocks)

Resolution 2000-10 (on the Stockholm Convention)

Resolution 2000-11 (on habitat protection and ICZM)

Resolution 2000-12 (on Dall's porpoise)

Resolution 2000-13 (on small cetaceans)

Resolutions debated but not adopted and other votes

II. Earlier meetings 

Hosted on the American Society of International Law Wildlife Interest Group website.

Resolutions of the 52nd Meeting (2000)
Resolutions of the 51st Meeting (1999)
Resolutions of the 50th Meeting (1998)
Resolutions of the 49th Meeting (1997) (PDF file)
Resolutions of the 48th Meeting (1996) (PDF file)
Resolutions of the 47th Meeting (1995) (PDF file)
Resolutions of the 46th Meeting (1994) (PDF file)
Resolutions of the 45th Meeting (1993) (PDF file)
Resolutions of the 44th Meeting (1992) (PDF file)
Resolutions of the 43rd Meeting (1991) (PDF file)
Resolutions of the 42nd Meeting (1990) (PDF file)
    
IWC Reports
  
Links to the IWC Secretariat website:

Chair's Report of the 53rd Annual Meeting 

Report of the Revised Management Scheme Expert Drafting Group (Auckland, March 2002): Word - PDF

Report of the Intersessional Meeting of the RMS Working Group (Monaco, February 2001): Word - PDF 

Report of the RMS Working Group (Adeleide, June 2000) [pdf]

Click here to see a full list of documents on the IWC website for the 2002 Annual Meeting.

Selected extracts from meeting reports in previous years are available on the Whaling Information from Japan website, organized by decade:

Extracts from Chair's Report: 2000s

Extracts from Chair's Report: 1990s

Extracts from Chair's Report: 1980s

Extracts from Chair's Report: 1970s

Extracts from Chair's Report: 1960s
    

Related international agreements


Links to OceanLaw:      

1999 Agreement concerning the Creation of a Marine Mammal Sanctuary in the Mediterranean

1996 Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area

1992 Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas

1992 Agreement on Cooperation in Research, Conservation and Management of Marine Mammals in the North Atlantic

1991 UNEP Action Plan for the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Mediterranean Sea

1979 Bonn Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals

1979 Bern Convention for the Conservation of European Wildlife and Habitats

1973 Convention on Trade in Endangered Species

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1937 International Agreement for the Regulation of Whaling

1931 Convention for the Regulation of Whaling

 

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