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The Executive Committee
25. The terms of reference of the IPFC Executive Committee are set out in Rule IX of the Commission's Rules of Procedure and are reproduced on page 6 of IPFC/90/Inf.12.
26. Particularly in the absence of an autonomous budget, its functions and responsibilities have been limited to keeping track of the follow-up action on the Commission's decisions and recommendations and preliminary examination and discussion of the reports of its committees and working parties before their submission to the Commission. The latter task however, has recently become heavier consequent to the decision of the Twenty-second Session of IPFC in 1987, in connection with the review of the functions of SCORRAD, that the reports of the working parties, would no longer be screened by SCORRAD and would be directly submitted to the Commission through the Executive Committee.
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27. Rule IX also requires the Executive Committee to meet at least once year between regular sessions. Recently however, e.g., during the last inter-sessional period, annual meetings have no t taken place. The Sixty-fourth Session of the Executive Committee scheduled immediately prior to the Twenty-third Session of IPFC, is being held mainly for the purpose of screening the reports of the Committees and Working Parties. In case the Commission believes that more flexibility is needed in the frequency of meetings of the Executive Committee it could envisage amending accordingly
Rule IX of its Rules of Procedure.
CDMS CS
28. In the South China Sea and adjacent waters, CDMS CS has the same functions and responsibilities as those assigned to the IPFC in the Indo-Pacific area a whole by Article IV of the IPFC Agreement.
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29. The Committee, as mentioned earlier, very recently reviewed its functions. and responsibilities and its structure in relation to IPFC, and the views of the Committee and its Ad Hoc Working Group are embodied in two documents which are submitted to the present session of the Commission under reference IPFC/90/Inf.6 and Inf.13.
SCORRAD
30. The terms of reference of SCORRAD, as set out by the Commission at the time of its establishment, are reproduced at page 11 of IPFC/90/Inf.12. As mentioned earlier, these functions were reviewed by SCORRAD at its Fifth Session in 1987 at which various options were considered in order to improve its efficiency. Two alternative options were submitted to the Commission. Consequent to an exhaustive discussion, the Commission recommended the option in terms of which SCORRAD's function would be reduced to providing advice to IPFC on marine resources matters (statistics, state of the stocks and potential) as well as related research problems.
31. It may be noted that the Ad hoc Working Group of CDMSCS which reviewed the Committee's structure, functions, and responsibilities expressed some views on the functions of SCORRAD. (see paragraphs 2 and 5 of IPFC/90/Inf.13).
32. At its 22nd Session, (1987) IPFC recommended that SCORRAD propose a strategy for better management-oriented fishery research, following the identification of the IPFC symposium of the serious management problems affecting the fisheries in the IPFC area.
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