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Decisions taken at IWC 2014
The following is a record of the major votes that took place at the IWC in Slovenia 2014, covering all Schedule Amendments, Resolutions and Decisions

- IWC/65/08 The South Atlantic: A Sanctuary for Whales (Submitted by Argentina, Brazil, South Africa and Uruguay)
- -Result Fails as does not get 3/4 majority vote with 40 YES, 18 NO, and 2 Abstentions
-Result Proposal defeated as fails to get 3/4 majority. Vote 19 Yes, 39 No, 2 abstentions
- Result: Approved by vote (35 YES, 20 NO, 5 Abstain, 1 Not Present)
- Result: 46 YES, 11 NO, 3 Abstentions, 2 Not present. Schedule Amendment was passed
- Resolution was adopted by simple majority 40 YES, 5 NO, 15 Abstain, 2 Not Present
- Proposal withdrawn as proponents wanted to apply to commercial whaling and would not restrict to ASW
- The result 37 yes, 15 no, 7 abstain so proposal adopted