19. Recommendations adopted at the Fourteenth Consultative Meeting, done at Rio de Janeiro October 5-16, 1987.

Entered into Force January 23, 2004 for Recommendations XIV-1 and XIV-3 thru XIV-101.

Article IX, paragraph 4, of the Antarctic Treaty provides that recommended measures “shall become effective when approved by all the Contracting Parties whose representatives were entitled to participate in the meetings held to consider those measures.”