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SCAR Bulletin No 136, January 2000

Decision 1 (1999)

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The Representatives,

Recognising the usefulness of a World Wide Web site on the Internet in the operation of the CEP;

Noting that the operation of such a web site ideally would be the responsibility of a Secretariat established under the Antarctic Treaty;

Decide:

1. 1. That the home country of the Chair of the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP) shall, within the resources available to it, and only for as long as it provides the CEP Chair, operate a CEP web site on the World Wide Web on an interim basis;
2. 2. The CEP web site will be operated in close co-operation with the Host Country of the ATCM operating the ATCM Home Page;
3. 3. The CEP web site shall inter alia contain:

   a) in an area freely accessible to the general public:

   • general information about the Committee on Environmental Protection and environmental issues in Antarctica;
   • an archive of official documentation from the previous meetings of the Committee, containing Working and Information Papers submitted to its meetings, as well as the final reports of its meetings;
   • links to related web sites (e.g. SCAR, COMNAP, CCAMLR)

   b) in a password protected area accessible only to the Members of the CEP, Observers to the CEP, and other experts as appropriate that the Committee decides should have such access:

   • official documents submitted electronically to the Host Country and the CEP Chair in advance of a CEP Meeting;
   • any other documents that have been provided to the CEP Chair for consideration at the Meeting.

4. All official documents from each CEP meeting shall be made freely available on the CEP web site from the closure of that CEP Meeting if no member has indicated its intention to the contrary when submitting a document;
5. Meeting documents of the CEP are to be posted in all available translations. Any other input from Members shall be posted in the official Treaty language or languages in which it is submitted;
6. Documents for consideration by the CEP are to be submitted to the CEP web site only by identified CEP contact points. These contact points will be nominated by their respective Parties and Observers and will be listed on the CEP web site;
7. Password and username information for the protected area of the web site shall be made available only to the CEP contact point, for distribution to relevant individuals within the Member country or Observer Organisation as appropriate.