urces in the maritime area of the States of the Parties,
Desiring to cooperate on trade development of legally caught living marine resources and products made of them,
Have agreed as follows:
Article 1
Definitions used in this Agreement mean as follows:
"maritime area" - internal marine waters, territorial sea, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of the States of the Parties in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean;
"living marine resources" - all kinds of living marine organisms, including those which are caught and products made from them;
"fishing vessels of the Parties" - fishing vessels, including fish-processing and transport vessels, flying the State flags of the Parties, used or intended for use in commercial exploitation of living marine resources;
"fishing activity" - all activities of catching, processing, transshipping, transporting, and storing living marine resources;
"port" - the place, which is used for landing living marine resources, designated in accordance with the legislation of the State of each Party;
"trade" - discharge in port and sale of living marine resources;
"illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing" - fishing activities conducted by national or foreign vessels in waters under the jurisdiction of States of the Parties in violation of their laws and regulations;
fishing activities which have not been reported or have been misreported to the competent authorities mentioned in Article 4 of this Agreement in contravention of national laws and regulations;
or fishing activities conducted in the high seas or the area of application of a relevant regional fisheries management organization, participants of which are the States of the Parties, by fishing vessels flying the flag of the State not party to the organization.
Article 2
This Agreement shall be applied in respect to vessels that have engaged in fishing activity in maritime areas of the States of the Parties or intend to deliver living marine resources which were caught in maritime areas of the State of one Party to the port of the State of the other Party.
Article 3
1. Aiming to prevent, deter, and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, in accordance with confidentiality requirements, the Parties shall cooperate in information exchanges with regard to:
a) imports of living marine resources, originating from the State of one Party, to the territory of the State of the other Party;
b) calls of fishing vessels carrying living marine resources from the State of one Party to the ports of the State of the other Party for trade purposes;
c) name of the vessel (in transcription of the vessel's registry documents), vessel type, registration (hull) number of fishing vessel, international call sign of fishing vessel, name of vessel's owner, net weight (in tons) by each living marine resources, date and port of landing living marine resources and copies of Cargo Customs Declarations presented by the vessel's master and information on delivered living marine resources;
d) violation of domestic laws and regulations related to the fishing activities by vessels of the State of one Party which conducts fishing activities in the maritime area of the State of the other Party.
2. The Parties should coordinate their measures to deter, prevent and eliminate illegal deliveries of living marine resources from maritime areas of one Party to port of other Party, including exchanges of appropriate information.
3. Each Party shall promote mutual exchanges of officials and experts from fisheries inspection bodies and other relevant authorities of each Party, mentioned in Article 4 of this Agreement, for sharing experience and information to deter,
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