Council Resolution 14-01
Distribution: General
C/C.01/14/RES/01/Final
ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
11 March 2014
COUNCIL RESOLUTION: 14-01
Instruction to the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation to make public the factual record for Submission SEM-05-003 (Environmental Pollution in Hermosillo II)
THE COUNCIL:
SUPPORTIVE of the process provided for in Articles 14 and 15 of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) regarding submissions on enforcement matters;
EMPHASIZING that factual records are to provide an objective presentation of the facts relevant to the matter(s) raised in a submission and to allow the readers of a factual record to draw their own conclusions regarding a Party’s environmental law enforcement; and
NOTING Guideline 12.3 of the Guidelines for Submissions on Enforcement Matters under Articles 14 and 15 of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperationstating that if a Party so desires, its comments made pursuant to NAAEC Article 15(5) on the accuracy of the draft factual record will be posted on the Submissions on Enforcement Matters registry;
HEREBY DECIDES
TO MAKE PUBLIC the attached factual record for Submission SEM-05-003 (Environmental Pollution in Hermosillo II); and
TO DIRECT the Secretariat to publish a Party’s comments separately from the factual record on the Submissions on Enforcement Matters registry, if that Party so desires.
APPROVED BY THE COUNCIL:
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Dan McDougall
Government of Canada
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Enrique Lendo Fuentes
Government of the United Mexican States
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Jane Nishida
Government of the United States of America
On 11 March 2014, the Council directed the Secretariat to make public the factual record for Submission SEM-05-003 (Environmental Pollution in Hermosillo II).