DECISION ON THE PROGRESS REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION
OF THE ASSEMBLY DECISION ON THE 2050 AFRICA’S
INTEGRATED MARITIME STRATEGY
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The Executive Council,
1. TAKES NOTE of the Commission’s Progress Report on the implementation of the Assembly decision on the Africa’s Integrated Maritime (AIM) 2050 Strategy and the recommendations of the PRC as contained in paragraph 61 of its Report;
2. REQUESTS the Commission:
i) in consultation with PRC to facilitate the establishment of a Strategic Task Force composed of Representatives of Member States, the Commission and the RECs by the end of October 2014, with a mandate to consider the technical details of the AIM 2050 Strategy and propose a road map for the incremental implementation of the strategy in conformity with International Maritime Law;
ii) to invite Member States to indicate by the end of September 2014, their willingness to serve on the Strategic Task Force;
iii) to prepare a draft supplementary budget for the year 2014 and 2015 for consideration by the PRC, to enable the Strategic Task Force to meet.
3. WELCOMES the establishment by the Commission of an Interdepartmental Team under the coordination of the Office of the Legal Counsel (OLC);
4. COMMENDS those Member States that have seconded experts at their own expense to the Commission to assist with the implementation of the AIM 2050 Strategy and REQUESTS the Commission to invite other Member States willing to second experts on maritime related issues at their own expense to do the same;
5. REQUESTS the Commission, in collaboration with the PRC, to finalize the review of the Outcomes of the Task Force and submit its recommendations to the Ordinary Session of the Executive Council in June/July 2015.