Common use of CONSERVATION GUIDELINES Clause in Contracts

CONSERVATION GUIDELINES. The Meeting of the Parties to the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds, Recalling the Final Act of the negotiation meeting to adopt the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds, held in the Hague, in June 1995, inviting the interim secretariat to prepare conservation guidelines in order to assist the Parties in their implementation of the Agreement Action Plan, Recalling Article IV paragraph 4 of the Agreement on the submission of conservation guidelines to the first session of the Meeting of the Parties and the need for regular review thereafter, Recognizing the wide range of different conservation structures and national legislative frameworks currently occurring within the Agreement area, and through which the same conservation objectives can be achieved by different mechanisms, Aware of the results of the informal discussions on the draft of the conservation guidelines at the Second International Conference on Wetlands and Development held in Dakar, in November 1998, Convinced of the necessity that all Parties and Range States of the Agreement shall implement the Agreement in a similar and coherent way, Noting that these conservation guidelines provide a common framework for action but have no legally binding effect,