Legal Committee
The Legal Committee at its 101st session96 noted the
outcome of the meeting of Working Group 2 of the
Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia97
(IMO, 2014o and 2014p), and recognized that piracy
continued to be a significant international problem. It
welcomed the development of a draft law (IMO, 2014p,
annex), for establishing a coastguard/maritime police
by the Somali Contact Group on Counter Piracy.98
At the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of
Somalia strategy meeting held in Paris in January
2014, it was decided that Working Group 2 had
successfully achieved all of the aims it had intended
and that, as a result, it would convene only on an ad
hoc basis. It would be renamed “Legal Forum of the
CGPCS” and would be preserved as a virtual forum
to provide legal support to other working groups as
requested.