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have complete and timely access to all the information

necessary for the production of weather forecasts and

warnings and other meteorological/climatological

services necessary for the protection of life and prop-

erty and other public interest responsibilities entrusted

to the NMSs and without prejudice to the national laws

of their territory of location

2. NMSs should make their best efforts to ensure that the

conditions which have been applied by the originator

of additional data and products

are made known to

initial and subsequent recipients

3. In the case where conditions accompanying the

exchange of additional data and products are not

honoured, the originating NMS may take appropriate

actions including denial of access of these additional

data and products to the receiving Member

4. NMSs may export NWP regional model products

employing additional data and products for commer-

cial purposes outside the country of the Member

running the model, unless objected to by an affected

Member. Every effort should be made to coordinate

the provision of such services prior to implementation

to avoid possible harm to other Members

5. NMSs may distribute and export products from global

NWP models without regard to conditions which

were attached to the original data used in the models

6. Services or products whose construction would suffer

significant degradation by removal of the additional

data or products and from which the additional data

and/or products can be retrieved easily, or their use

can be identified unambiguously, should carry the

same conditions on their re-export for commercial

purposes as those additional data or products

7. An NMS receiving a request from a local client for

service that it cannot fulfil may seek assistance from

another NMS with the capacity to provide it. Where

appropriate to enhance the free and unrestricted

exchange of data and products among WMO

Members, the service should as far as possible be made

available through the offices of the NMS of the country

within which the client is located

8. Similarly, unless other arrangements have been agreed

to, an NMS receiving a request to provide service in

another country should refer the request back to the

NMS in that country, i.e. to the local NMS. In the event

that the local NMS is unable to provide the service for

lack of facilities or other legitimate reasons, the exter-

nal NMS may seek to establish a collaborative

arrangement with the local NMS to provide the service

9. Where the service originated by one NMS is likely to

affect other Members (e.g. in the provision of regional

broadcasts of meteorological information or the wide

distribution of seasonal or climate forecasts), the NMS

originating the service should seek, well in advance,

and take into account the response of the NMSs of the

affected Members, to the extent possible

10. NMSs should, to the extent possible, refrain from

using basic WWW data and products received from

other countries in ways which jeopardize the perfor-

mance of the public interest responsibilities of the

originating NMSs within their own countries. If an

NMS finds that, in the undertaking of its public inter-

est responsibilities it is affected adversely by a public

or private organization in another country, it may warn

the NMS in the country from which the organization

is deriving the data and products. The latter NMS

should consider measures to mitigate these adverse

effects and take those actions appropriate under its

national laws

11. NMSs with experience in commercial activities should

make their expertise available, on request, to other

NMSs, especially NMSs of developing countries,

through the WMO Secretariat and bilaterally, and

provide relevant documentation, seminars and training

programmes to developing countries, on request, on

the same financial basis as other WMO education and

training courses are provided.

In implementing these guidelines, NMSs should take into

account and, as far as possible, respect the different legal,

administrative, and funding frameworks which govern the

practices of NMSs in other countries or group of countries

forming a single economic group. NMSs should, in partic-

ular, note that other NMSs will be bound by their own

national laws and regulations regarding any trade restric-

tive practices. Furthermore, where a group of countries

form a single economic group, the internal laws and regu-

lations appropriate to that group shall, for all internal

group activities, take precedence over any conflicting

guidelines.

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UIDELINES FOR RELATIONS BETWEEN

NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL OR

HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL SERVICES

(NMHS)

AND THE COMMERCIAL SECTOR

Purpose

The purpose of these guidelines is to further improve the

relationship between NMSs and the commercial sector. The

development of the exchange of meteorological and related

information depends greatly upon sound, fair, transparent,

and stable relations between these two sectors.

Guidelines

These guidelines apply to the commercial sector engaged in

meteorological activities, which includes government orga-

nizations engaged in commercial meteorological activities.