Alternative treaty name

Treaty regulating the status of Spitsbergen and conferring the sovereignty on Norway

URL to text of IEA

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/treaties/1925/10.html

Possible sources (additional)

ECOLEX-1954; RS-VI:2574

Date IEA was concluded

1920-02-09

Conclusion year

1920

Place IEA was concluded

Paris

Date IEA entered into force

1925-08-14

Membership eligibility (multilateral, bilateral, etc)

Multilateral (3 or more governments)

Agreement type level 3

Treaty

E (environment) code (agreement is environmental or not)

Environmental

Source for e (environmental) code

Text: Art.2: Ships and nationals of all the High Contracting Parties shall enjoy equally the rights of fishing and hunting in the territories specified in Article 1 and in their territorial waters. Norway shall be free to maintain, take or decree suitable measures to ensure the preservation and, if necessary, the re-constitution of the fauna and flora of the said regions, and their territorial waters.

Text used for e (environmental) coding

Text: Art.2: Ships and nationals of all the High Contracting Parties shall enjoy equally the rights of fishing and hunting in the territories specified in Article 1 and in their territorial waters. Norway shall be free to maintain, take or decree suitable measures to ensure the preservation and, if necessary, the re-constitution of the fauna and flora of the said regions, and their territorial waters.

Words used to code as environmental

water/ waters/fauna/fish/flora/hunt/ship

Lineage

Spitsbergen

Sequence in lineage

100.000

Secretariat

No known secretariat

Version

2007.10

Inclusion auto-generated

MEA - Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Subject

Conservation of species and biodiversity

Category

ENV/FISH