OSPAR agreed that references in Annex V to the 1992 OSPAR Convention on the Protection and Conservation of the Ecosystems and Biological Diversity of the Maritime Area to "questions relating to the management of fisheries" are references to the questions on which action can be taken under such instruments as those constituting:

a. the Common Fisheries Policy of the European Community;

b. the corresponding legislation of Contracting Parties which are not Member States of the European Union; or

c. the corresponding legislation in force in the Faroe Islands, Greenland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

d. the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission and the North Atlantic Salmon Commission

whether or not such action has been taken.

For the avoidance of doubt, in the context of the OSPAR Convention, the management of fisheries includes the management of marine mammals.