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The Congress,
Noting:
1. Resolution 23 (EC-XLII) – Guidelines on international
aspects of provision of basic and special meteorologi-
cal services
2. Resolution 20 (EC-XLVI) –WMO policy on the exchange
of meteorological and related data and products
3. Resolution 21 (EC-XLVI) – Proposed new practice for
the exchange of meteorological and related data and
products
4. Resolution 22 (EC-XLVI) – WMO guidelines on
commercial activities
5. The report to Twelfth Congress of the chairman of the
Executive Council Working Group on the
Commercialization of Meteorological and Hydrological
Services, established at the request of Eleventh Congress
by the Executive Council in Resolution 2 (EC-XLIII) –
Working Group on the Commercialization of
Meteorological and Hydrological Services.
Recalling:
1. The general policies of the Organization, as set down
in the Third WMO Long-term Plan (1992–2001)
adopted by Eleventh Congress, which include, inter
alia, that Members should reaffirm their commitment
to the free and unrestricted international exchange of
basic meteorological data and products, as defined in
WMO Programmes (Third WMO Long-term Plan, Part
I, Chapter 4, paragraph 127)
2. The concern expressed by Eleventh Congress that
commercial meteorological activities had the potential
to undermine the free exchange of meteorological data and
products between national Meteorological Services.
Considering:
1. The continuing fundamental importance, for the provi-
sion of meteorological services in all countries, of the
exchange of meteorological data and products between
WMO Members’ national Meteorological or
Hydrometeorological Services (NMSs), WMCs, and
RSMCs of the WWW Programme
2. Other programmes of world importance such as
GCOS, GOOS, WCRP, and IGOSS, which are spon-
sored and implemented in cooperation with other
international organizations
3. The basic role of WMO Members’ NMSs in further-
ing applications of meteorology to all human
activities,
4. The call by the world leaders at UNCED (Brazil, 1992)
for increasing global commitment to exchange scien-
tific data and analysis and for promoting access to
strengthened systematic observations
5. The provision in the UN/FCCC committing all Parties
to the Convention to promote and cooperate in the
full, open, and prompt exchange of information related
to the climate system and climate change.
Recognizing:
1. The increasing requirement for the global exchange of
all types of environmental data in addition to the estab-
lished ongoing exchange of meteorological data and
products under the auspices of the WWW
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ESOLUTION
40 (C
G
-XII, 1995)
WMO policy and practice for the
exchange of meteorological and related
data and products including guidelines
on relationships in commercial
meteorological activities
Annexes