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BY COMMISSION CATEGORY
Title
Annual Commission Meeting
here	61/Rep 1 Report of the Scientific Committee
here	61/Rep 2 Report of the Finance and Administration Committee
here	61/Rep 3 Report of  the Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling Sub-Committee
here	61/Rep 4 Report of the Infractions Sub-Committee
here	61/Rep 5 Report of the Conservation Committee
here	61/Rep 6 Working Group on Whale Killing Methods and Associated Welfare Issues
here	61/1rev List of Documents
here	61/2 Annotated Provisional Agenda
here	61/3 List of participants
here	61/4rev Cooperation with other Organisations
here	61/5rev Financial Statements
here	61/6 Report of the Small Working Group (SWG) on the Future of the International Whaling Commission 18 May 2009
here	61/7rev Chair's Report of the Intersessional Meeting on the Future of the IWC
here	61/8rev Australian comment on the intersessional correspondence group on issues relating to the Scientific Committee (Australia)
here	61/9 Addressing special permit whaling and the future of the IWC (Australia)
here	61/10rev Consensus resolution on the extension of Small Working Group on the Future of the IWC until the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Commission
here	61/11rev Proposed Schedule Amendment [Greenland Catch Limits] (Denmark)
here	61/12 Background information in relation to the schedule amendment IWC/61/11 on the request of 10 humpback whales off West Greenland (Denmark)
here	61/13 The Southern Ocean Research Partnership Workshop: Summary of Outcomes (Australia)
here	61/14 Whalewatching worldwide (Australia)
here	61/15 Catches by IWC member nations in the 2008 and 2008/2009 seasons (Secretariat)
here	61/16 Consensus resolution on climate and other environmental changes and cetaceans (USA & Norway)
here	61/17 Draft Terms of Reference for the joint Scientific and Finance and Administration working group on Scientific Committee matters
here	61/18 Cetaceans and Other Marine Biodiversity of the Eastern Tropical Pacific: Options for Adapting to Climate Change
here	61/19 Greenpeace letter regarding Rainbow Warrior
here	61/OS Member Governments' Opening Statements
here	61/OS IGOs Opening Statements
here	61/OS NGOs Opening Statements
Background Documents:
here	M09/5 Report of the Intersessional Correspondence Group on Scientific Committee Issues
here	SC/61/O15 Examination of the effects of planned takes by Japanese small-type coastal whaling on ‘O’ and ‘J’ stocks common minke whales in the Western North Pacific
Further Discussions on the Future of the IWC
here	NOTE: Links to a separate page with all Principal documents listed
Conservation Committee
-	Translated Chair's summary FRENCH | SPANISH
here	CC1rev Revised Draft Agenda
here	CC2 List of Documents
here	CC3 Country report on ship strikes (Australia)
here	CC4 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report (Australia)
here	CC5 Outline proposal for a joint IWC-ACCOBAMS workshop on reducing risk of collisions between vessels and cetaceans
here	CC6 Voluntary National cetacean conservation report (New Zealand)
here	CC7 Long-term acoustic monitoring of baleen whales in the Southern and Indian Sanctuaries (France)
here	CC8 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report (Panama)
here	CC9 Report of the Intersessional Correspondence Group on Whalewatching(Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa)
here	CC10 Whale-watching in the Canary Islands (Spain)
here	CC11 Ship strikes working group: Fourth progress report to the Conservation Committee
here	CC12rev Actions to Reduce the Threat of Ship Collisions with Southern Right Whales in Patagonia Argentina (Argentina)
here	CC13 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report (United Kingdom)
here	CC14 Update on the United States’ Actions to Reduce the Threat of Ship Collisions with Large Whales
here	CC15 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report (United States)
here	CC16 Activities on cetaceans carried out by the Canary Islands Government in 2008 and review of historic data records of cetaceans and ship strike in the Canary Islands Annexes (in English and Spanish)
here	CC17 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report (Argentina)
here	CC18 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report (Brazil)
here	CC19 Report of Measures Taken in Chile to Protect Southern Right Whales (Chile)
here	CC20 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report (Mexico)
here	CC21 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report (France)
here	CC22 Summary of 2008 collection activities related to “stinky” gray whales in Chukotka, Russia
here	CC23 A Strategic Approach to the development and implementation of Conservation Management Plans (Australia)
here	CC24 Voluntary National Cetacean Conservation Report (Chile)
Infractions Sub-Committee
-	Translated Chair's summary FRENCH | SPANISH
here	INF1rev Revised Draft Agenda
here	INF2 Annotated Draft Agenda
here	INF3 National Legislation supplied to the IWC - 2009
here	INF4 Summary of infractions reports received by the Commission for 2008
Working Group on Whale Killing Methods and Associated Welfare Issues
-	Translated Chair's summary FRENCH | SPANISH
here	WKM1 Revised Draft Agenda
here	WKM1 List of Documents
here	WKM3 Summary of Activities Related to the Action Plan on Whale Killing Methods (based on Resolution 1999-1): Euthanasia of stranded whales beyond all hope of rescue (New Zealand)
here	WKM4 Report on weapons, techniques, and observations in the Alaskan bowhead whale subsistence hunt
here	WKM5 Summary of Activities Related to the Action Plan on Whale Killing Methods (based on Resolution 1999-1) (Russian Federation) [Without Annexes]
here	WKM7 Welfare issues associated with the entanglement of large whales
here	WKM8 Norwegian minke whaling 2008
Finance and Administration Committee
-	Translated Chair's summary FRENCH | SPANISH
Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling Sub-Committee
-	Translated Chair's summary FRENCH | SPANISH
here	ASW1 Revised Draft Agenda
here	ASW2 List of Documents
here	ASW3 Aboriginal harvest of gray and bowhead whales by Russian indigenous people in 2008  [Without Annexes]
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