All Contracting Parties and Cooperating Non-Contracting Parties shall comply with the Resolution 98/01 [superseded by Resolution 01/05, then Resolution 08/01, then Resolution 10/02], "Mandatory Statistical Requirements for IOTC Members" adopted at the 3rd Session of IOTC in 1998.
The IOTC Executive Secretary shall consider options to encourage the timely collection and provision of fisheries data to improve the compliance of data requirements and report them to the 2001 IOTC Scientific Committee and Commission meetings.
The Commission shall request Contracting and Non-Contracting Parties, to cooperate by submitting all required fisheries data before the beginning of the next Working Party.