Government Resolution No. 8/2023 approving the accession of Timor-Leste to the Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing.

Considering that the approval of the Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing occurred in full coherence with the fundamental constitutional principles of Timor-Leste. Bearing in mind that Timor-Leste is a State party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to which it adhered through National Parliament Resolution No. 17/2012 of 27 December, rectified by the Declaration No. 2/2012 of 27 December, published in Jornal da República, Series I, No. 4, of 30 January 2013; The Government resolves, under the terms of paragraphs e) and f) of paragraph 1 of article 115 of the Constitution of the Republic, to approve, for adherence, the Agreement on Port State Measures (IUU), whose authentic version in English and translation into Portuguese are attached to this Resolution.