Updating requirements for Information Exchange on national expeditions
The Representatives,

Noting Articles III (1)(a) and VII (5) of the Antarctic Treaty;

Conscious of the obligations within the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (“the Protocol”) and its Annexes to exchange information;

Conscious also of decisions of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (“ATCM”) in relation to the information to be exchanged by Parties;

Desiring that the exchange of information by Parties be conducted in the most efficient and timely manner;

Desiring also that the information to be exchanged by Parties could be readily identified to maximise its utility;

Recalling Decision 4 (2012), which decided that the Parties will use the Electronic Information Exchange System (“EIES”) to exchange information in accordance with the Antarctic Treaty and the Protocol and its Annexes and which specified that Parties will continue to work with the Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty (“the Secretariat”) to refine and improve the EIES;

Noting that Decision 4 (2012) requires Parties to update relevant sections of the EIES regularly throughout the year, in order that such information be made available and accessible to Parties as soon as practicable;


Decide:


1. the Annex to this Decision represents a consolidated list of the information agreed to be exchanged by Parties;

2. the Secretariat shall modify the EIES to reflect the information contained in the Annex to this Decision; and

3. the Annex to Decision 7 (2019) is no longer current.