The ICCAT Atlantic Wide Research Programme for Bluefin Tuna (GBYP) is an international research, initially co-funded by the European Community (80%), Canada, Croatia, Japan, Norway, Turkey, United States, Chinese Taipei and ICCAT Secretariat. The publication policy concerning the results obtained by the various researches carried out within this programme must follow the rules included in the contract between the ICCAT and the funders and those rules will be mandatory for all the participants to the GBYP. The acceptance of a contract provided by the GBYP will automatically implies the acceptance of the “Publication policy and Editorial rules” here detailed.

1. Ownership of the results of the Programme (GBYP), including industrial and intellectual property rights, and of the reports and other documents relating to it, shall be vested by the ICCAT.
2. The result of each action carried out within the Programme (GBYP) and all the scientific results obtained by these actions shall be presented to the ICCAT-SCRS at the first opportunity.
3. The scientific results of actions carried out within the Programme (GBYP), after the presentation to the ICCAT/SCRS, can be published, entirely or partly, on the ICCAT Collective Volume of Scientific Papers, the Aquatic Living Resources journal with which ICCAT has an special publication agreement or in other scientific journals. The Authors who wish to publish these results in other scientific journals shall previously require a permit to ICCAT. ICCAT, following the spirit of this scientific programme, encourages the Authors engaged in research action within the Programme (GBYP) to disseminate their results, particularly in international scientific journals.
4. Each report or article concerning the results obtained within the actions of the Programme (GBYP) must include the following sentence: “This work was carried out under the provision of the ICCAT Atlantic Wide Research Programme for Bluefin Tuna (GBYP), funded by the European Community (grant SI2/542789), Canada, Croatia, Japan, Norway, Turkey, United States, Chinese Taipei and the ICCAT Secretariat. The contents of this paper do not necessarily reflects the point of view of ICCAT or of the other funders, which have not responsibility about them. . Neither  does it necessarily reflect the views of the funders and in no ways anticipates the Commission’s future policy in this area.”
5. All the data collected under the Programme (GBYP) shall be used only for scientific purposes and according to the ICCAT rules (see also SCRS/09/122). Any other use of these data should be specifically authorised by ICCAT.