Agreement - meaning and illustration

1. Ordinance No. 62-0F-30 of March 31, 1962 on the Code of Merchant Marine Fishing in Cameroon, article 1, paragraph 1:

" However, foreign navigators to whom reciprocal agreements between their country of origin and Cameroon have allowed them to navigate on Cameroonian vessels may, insofar as the regulations governing their status allow, continue to enjoy the advantages that are specific to them. "

2. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 15, paragraph 1:

" Where the coasts of two States are opposite or adjacent to each other, neither of the two States is entitled, failing agreement between them to the contrary, to extend its territorial sea beyond the median line every point of which is equidistant from the nearest points on the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial seas of each of the two States is measured. The above provision does not apply, however, where it is necessary by reason of historic title or other special circumstances to delimit the territorial seas of the two States in a way which is at variance therewith. "

3. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 43:

" User States and States bordering a strait should by agreement cooperate: (a) in the establishment and maintenance in a strait of necessary navigational and safety aids or other improvements in aid of international navigation; and (b) for the prevention, reduction and control of pollution from ships. "

4. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 47, paragraph 6:

" If a part of the archipelagic waters of an archipelagic State lies between two parts of an immediately adjacent neighbouring State, existing rights and all other legitimate interests which the latter State has traditionally exercised in such waters and all rights stipulated by agreement between those States shall continue and be respected. "

5. Law No. 94/01 of 20 January 1994 to lay down forestry, wildlife and fisheries regulations in Cameroon, Chapter I, article 144, paragraph 1:

" Perishable products seized, with the exception of those that are dangerous or damaged shall in the absence of a purchaser, be sold forthwith, by public auction or mutual agreement, by the competent service, under the conditions laid down by decree. "