Cook Islands definition
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For the purposes of this Agreement, where applicable “Small Island States” means the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Republic of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Islands and Tuvalu.
All sectors The Cook Islands reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure in sectors in which it has not undertaken sector-specific commitments in its Schedule of Commitments on Investment or in its Schedule of Specific Services Commitments.
All sectors The Cook Islands reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure requiring that a majority of the board of directors, or any committee thereof of an enterprise that is a covered investment, be of a particular nationality or resident in the Cook Islands provided that the requirement does not materially impair the ability of the investor to exercise control over its investment.
All sectors The Cook Islands reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure in relation to the control, management or use of protected areas, including resources on land, interests in land or sea, that are set up for heritage or conservation management purposes (both historic and natural heritage), public recreation, and scenery preservation.
MINING AND QUARRYING (ISIC Rev 3.1: 101-142) The Cook Islands reserves the right to adopt any measure in order to prohibit, regulate, manage or control the production, use, distribution, or retail of minerals or mineraloids or the like (including crystalline and abiogenic or of like makeup or composition that may include an aggregate of non minerals) in origin, including setting conditions for natural persons or juridical persons to do so.
All sectors Where the Cook Islands Government wholly owns or has effective control over an enterprise then the Cook Islands reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measures in relation to the sale of any shares in that enterprise or any assets of that enterprise to any person, including according more favourable treatment to Cook Islanders.
The Government of the Cook Islands further declares that, in light of the best available scientific information and assessment on climate change and its impacts, it considers the emissions reduction obligations in the aforesaid Paris Agreement to be inadequate to prevent a global temperature stabilisation level at or above 1.5 degrees Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels and as a consequence, such emissions will have severe implications for our national interests.
The Government of the Cook Islands declares its understanding that acceptance of the Paris Agreement and its application shall in no way constitute a renunciation of any rights under international law concerning State responsibility for the adverse effects of climate change and that no provision in the Paris Agreement can be interpreted as derogating from principles of general international law or any claims or rights concerning compensation due to the impacts of climate change.
FISHING (ISIC Rev 3.1: 0501) The Cook Islands reserves the right to maintain or adopt any measures in relation to the control of the activities of foreign fishing, including fishing landing, first landing of fish processed at sea, and access to the Cook Islands (port privileges) consistent with the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.