HomeAntarctica Status Lists ...22. Recommendations adopted at the Seventeenth Consultative Meeting, done at Venice November 11-20, 1992. hide 22. Recommendations adopted at the Seventeenth Consultative Meeting, done at Venice November 11-20, 1992. Depositary – Treaty Affairs Office of Treaty Affairs Article IX, paragraph 4, of the Antarctic Treaty provides that recommended measures “shall become effective when approved by all the Contracting Parties whose representatives were entitled to participate in the meetings held to consider those measures.” Download status lists [123 KB] Tags Antarctic Multilateral Treaties