Other Asia-Pacific Regions

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Pacific Region Organisations & Issues
• ACEL - The Australian Centre for Environmental Law
• ECO ASIA Home Page
• GEF/UNDP/IMO East Asian Seas Marine Pollution Prevention & Management Programme
• Secretariat of Tokyo MOU on Port State Control in Asia Pacific
• ESCAP - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
• South China Sea Informal Working Group
• Asian Development Bank Web Site
• IGC: Environmental Law in Asia
• Haze/Forest Fires - Vads Corner

Regional Instruments
• 1956 Plant Protection Agreement for the South East Asia and Pacific Region
• 1976 Convention on Conservation of Nature in the South Pacific
• 1979 South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency Convention
• 1985 South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty
• 1986 Convention for the Protection of the Natural Resources and Environment of the South

Pacific Region (SPREP)
• 1986 Protocol concerning Co-operation in Combating Pollution Emergencies in the South Pacific

Region [under SPREP]
• 1987 Agreement on Implementation of US-South Pacific Treaty on Fisheries
• 1989 Convention for the Prohibition of Fishing with Long Driftnets in the South Pacific
• 1992 Niue Treaty on Cooperation in Fisheries Surveillance and Law Enforcement in the South

Pacific Region
• 1993 Agreement establishing SPREP [as an Intergovernmental Organisation]

last updated 14th September 1999
Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law
Faculty of Law
National University of Singapore
© 1999