WHEREAS Article 17 of the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery Resources in the South Pacific Ocean (“Convention”) permits members of the Commission of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (“Commission”) to object to a decision adopted by the Commission within 60 days of the date of notification of the decision;

WHEREAS the Russian Federation has invoked Article 17, objecting to the shares in the catch limit of Trachurus murphyi in 2013 specified in the Conservation and Management Measure for Trachurus murphyi (“CMM 1.01”) as set out in its letter dated 19 April 2013;

WHEREAS Article 17 provides for the establishment of a Review Panel when an objection is presented by a member of the Commission;

WHEREAS in accordance with Paragraph 1 of Annex II to the Convention, the Review Panel composed of Professor Bernard H. Oxman, Dr. Kamil A. Bekyashev, and Sra. Valeria Carvajal was constituted on 21 May 2013;

WHEREAS Paragraph 4 of Annex II provides that “[t]he Review Panel shall determine its own rules of procedure”;

WHEREAS on 27 May 2013, the Review Panel issued the attached Procedural Timetable for these proceedings in which it fixed time limits for written submissions from the Russian Federation, the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation, and members of the Commission (referred to as “participants” for present purposes);

The Review Panel issues the following Procedural Directive No. 1: