2017 DMLs Sample Clauses

2017 DMLs. The Parties requested 100 DMLs for 2017 from the unreserved portion (4,900) of the overall fleet mortality limit. The utilization of the DMLs for the unreserved portion as of 7 September is as follows: DML (Limit per vessel) Assigned Utilized by April 1 Re- nounced Lost due to no utilization Exempt due to force majeure Full year (00) 000 00 0 0 5 Second semester - - - - - RDA - - - - - Five vessels that did not utilize their DMLs prior to 1 April were allowed to keep them for the remainder of the year under the force majeure exemption granted by the AIDCP. As of 7 September 2017, only 2 of these have made use of them. During 2017, one vessel exceeded its DML. The national authority of the Party reallocated 18 additional dolphins to it from the total reallocated to its fleet, arguing that Annex IV.III.5 of the AIDCP prohibits reallocating dolphins to vessels only if they exceed a DML before 1 April, whereas this vessel did so after that date. The Parties, noting that the Agreement was created to reduce the incidental mortality of dolphins, and that cases such as this could undermine its effectiveness, asked the Secretariat to draft an amendment to the annex to eliminate the possibility of reallocating dolphins to a vessel that exceeded its DML in that same year (see minutes of the 61st Meeting of the IRP and the 35th Meeting of the Parties in July 2017). The Parties, noting a precedent in another national fleet, approved allocating a DML to a vessel that for- feited its full-year DML because it did not utilize it by 1 April, that requested a force majeure exemption after the deadline, after the unutilized DMLs had already been reallocated among the Parties, and that was not entitled to a DML from the RDA. The DML would be taken from those already allocated to other vessels of that national fleet.