* [Reproduced from a text provided by the International Whaling Commission. A press release of the Commission on the inability to implement the observer scheme in the 1963-64 whaling season appears at page 111.

[Although this agreement was concluded by the five governments outside of the International Whaling Convention, the International Whaling Commission has agreed to appoint the observers and accept their reports. In this connection an amendment to Paragraph 1 of the Schedule of the Convention was made at the fifteenth meeting of the Commission in London in 1963.

[The amended Paragraph 1, reproduced from the Schedule dated November 1963 published by the International Whaling Commission, follows (the amendment is in bold type):

1—(a) There shall be maintained on each factory ship at least two inspectors of whaling for the purpose of maintaining twenty-four hour inspection and also such observers as the member countries engaged in the Antarctic pelagic whaling may arrange to place on each other’s factory ships. These inspectors shall be appointed and paid by the Government having jurisdiction over the factory ship; provided that inspectors need not be appointed to ships which, apart from the storage of products, are used during the season solely for freezing or salting the meat and entrails of whales intended for human food or feeding animals.

(b) Adequate inspection shall be maintained at each land station. The inspectors serving at each land station shall be appointed and paid by the Government having jurisdiction over the land station.

[The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling appears as 62 Stat. 1716, T.I.A.S. 1849, 161 U.N.T.S. 72.]