Interim Regulations for Management of Scientific Data and Information

The intent of this document is to put together different interim regulations suggested by the Scientific Committee while the NPFC develops comprehensive rules and procedures governing the security of, exchange of, access to and dissemination of data. The proposed Interim Regulations for Management of Scientific Data and Information is drawn from (1) Interim Guidance for Management of Scientific Data Used in Stock Assessments adopted by the Commission in 2017, (2) revision of the Interim Guidance suggested by the VME&BF Data workshop in order to ensure the security and exchange of other than stock assessment data and the following revision by the SSC BF02 meeting, (3) Regulations for management of scientific meeting documents, meeting reports and intersessional communications on the NPFC website proposed by the SC in 2018, and (4) recommendation from the TWG PSSA03 meeting to draft rules to address submission, revision and treatment of scientific papers before and during meetings.