[PASSED] Marine Protection Act

[Fractalnavel]

The WA acts as if all of its members have bottomless treasuries. Every new resolution tanks the economy further. Are there any resolutions about budgets, and limiting WA actions and/or members compliance based on such? Going to have to leave if this keeps up...

[Kenmoria]

The WA acts as if all of its members have bottomless treasuries. Every new resolution tanks the economy further. Are there any resolutions about budgets, and limiting WA actions and/or members compliance based on such? Going to have to leave if this keeps up...

“Although you do what many consider a good point with regards to the limited funds of members, this proposal doesn’t really affect states much. It is much more focused on having the World Assembly perform actions through the mechanism of a committee. However, with regards to the funds of member states generally, I consider this is net gain. Money is less important than civil rights, contrary to what many others might say.”

[Fearann Dorcha]

"Since a great deal of my citizens live in water, I support this 100%."
- KING BOWSER, Ruler and Sea Lover of Fearann Dorcha

[JC Cavs]

I think protecting our environment is incredibly important and relevant to human life. There should be a greater focus on preserving the planet. It should start within governments and continue through communities and individuals. Simply planting a tree and recycling used materials is highly beneficial to maintaining the planet’s health and does not require a lot of work.

[JC Cavs]

"Since a great deal of my citizens live in water, I support this 100%."
- KING BOWSER, Ruler and Sea Lover of Fearann Dorcha

Similar to your country, clean and safe waters are vital to the survival of my country, as fishing is a large part of my country’s economy and food source.

[Araraukar]

Your legality argument

OOC: What legality argument? I made no legality arguments on the proposal that I'm aware of. I just said that the WA having jurisdiction over international areas makes no sense in IC given how we're supposed to view the WA in IC, even according to you (you often compare it to the EU).

Law abiding nations which are not required to know what the regulations are? *snip*

And that is exactly why I hate the current trend of the "make a committee, make it make invisible regulations" approach. Why aren't you complaining about that instead, rather than the enforcement? The enforcement should be easy, given it'd be one committee telling another what the regulations are, and then Wine And Crouton Conference pouncing at any nation not compliant with it. That process involved something about nations being given a chance to correct their behaviour before sanctions coming in, I think? That, at latest, is the nation being made aware of the regulations AND enforcing them in the same go. You created that system, making something like this possible, so rejoice on it being taken to its bureaucratic perfection, now.

[Gaen Vale Queendom]

"Since a great deal of my citizens live in water, I support this 100%."
- KING BOWSER, Ruler and Sea Lover of Fearann Dorcha

Similar to your country, clean and safe waters are vital to the survival of my country, as fishing is a large part of my country’s economy and food source.

You can just be a little bugger like me and sneak out of the World Assembly for a day before the resolution passes. That way you won't be affected by this rediculous law. I don't know if this is technicaly in the rules or not, but if you can exploit something to your advantage, you may as well do it.

[Kenmoria]

Similar to your country, clean and safe waters are vital to the survival of my country, as fishing is a large part of my country’s economy and food source.

You can just be a little bugger like me and sneak out of the World Assembly for a day before the resolution passes. That way you won't be affected by this rediculous law. I don't know if this is technicaly in the rules or not, but if you can exploit something to your advantage, you may as well do it.

(OOC: Just on this point, that only affects things stat-wise. Your nation is still affected from a legal perspective by any extant resolutions, regardless of whether you were currently in the WA when it passed. The stats, however, don’t change if you aren’t in the WA for technical reasons.)

[Eluney]

“Although The Federal Republic of Eluney does not have sea coasts, we believe that environmental protection related to the seas is an issue that should concern humanity as a whole and, therefore, all Nations.

We see pertinent the concerns of some nations regarding the competence of the General Assembly to legislate on international waters. Indeed, GA #293 -which has nothing to do with international waters- "NOTES that the jurisdiction of the World Assembly (...) is limited to only acting within WA member nations or through their actions within their territories ".

However, we see that the creation of the CPME does not go against this principle. There are other resolutions of the General Assembly that legislate actions of Member Nations in relation to international waters (GA #20, GA #50; GA #95; GA #168; GA #199; GA #441, among others) and that even some of they recognize state jurisdiction within international waters (GA #168, Clause 3: “A nation's territorial jurisdiction also extends over offshore installations located within its EEZ, and over ships registered in that nation while those are in International Waters”).

We understand that if the General Assembly has recognized Member Nations the power to carry out activities of all kinds in international waters, then the creation of an organism that is in charge of issuing legislation aimed at the environmental protection of certain areas within territorial waters -despite obviously not being applicable to non-Member Nations-, is a valid step. On the other hand, we also understand that the power granted to the CPME to legislate is correct, since this gives it the necessary flexibility to avoid that issues not contemplated in this Resolution should be covered later by another Resolution.

For all the above, Eluney will vote in favor of this proposal”.

Mr. Carlos Alejandro Herrera.
Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Eluney to the World Assembly.

[Tinhampton]

Marine Protection Act was passed 11,880 votes to 3,672.

[Picairn]

"Pardon my language, but holy crap, our weather was significantly improved over a small dip in the Trout Fishing industry. This is a worthwhile trade to us, but I wonder what happened with countries that has Trout Fishing as their primary industry?"

[Ardiveds]

"Pardon my language, but holy crap, our weather was significantly improved over a small dip in the Trout Fishing industry. This is a worthwhile trade to us, but I wonder what happened with countries that has Trout Fishing as their primary industry?"

"Enjoying the sunshine while they still have cash in pocket I imagine."