Though ICCAT also promised to commit itself to catch levels based on scientific evidence, it proposed to postponedoing so until somewhere between 2011 and 2013, and then only at levels that would give a 60% probability of rebuilding the stock by 2023.
One way of doing this would be to postpone for at least six months Moscow's demand that, starting on 1 January 1991, payments for Soviet oil and gas supplies be made in hard currency.