The Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission is a regional fisheries organization composed of seven member States: Cabo Verde, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal and Sierra Leone. During its fourteenth session (27-28 March 2013), the Conference of Ministers of the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission adopted a resolution by which it decided, in accordance with article 33 of the Convention on the Determination of the Minimal Conditions for Access and Exploitation of Marine Resources within the Maritime Areas under Jurisdiction of the Member States of the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission, of 2012, to authorize the Permanent Secretary of the Commission to seize the Tribunal in order to obtain its advisory opinion on the following matters:
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