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Belgium-France-Federal Republic of Germany-Italy-Japan-Netherlands-United Kingdom-United States: Provisional Understanding regarding Deep Seabed Mining*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2017

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Treaties and Agreements
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1984

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Footnotes

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[Reproduced from the text provided by the U.S. Department of State. Appendix I, containing definitions, appears at page 1357; Appendix II, concerning notification, appears at 1358.

[The memorandum of implementation appears at I.L.M. page 1358. The exchange of diplomatic notes between the United States and the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, and Japan, the four countries with national legislation on the exploration and commercial recovery of deep seabed mineral resources, begins at I.L.M. page 1361. The FRG declaration on Berlin appears at page 1363. The declarations of Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands, the threie countries without legislation regulating the exploration and mining of deep seabed mineral resources at the present time, appear at I.L.M. page 1364-65. The agreed minute to the Agreement concerning Interim Arrangements relating to Polymetallic Nodules of the Deep Sea Bed, done September 2 1982, and reproduced at 2l I.L.M. 950 (1982), appears at page 1365.]

References

* [The Memorandum was signed on August 3, 1984, on behalf of Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

[The Joint Record with regard to applications appears at I.L.M. page 1360.]

* The United Kingdom confirmed the understanding contained in U.S. diplomatic note No. 164 on August 3, 1984. The U.K. legislation appears at 20 I.L.M. 1217 (1981).]

* [The Pederal Republic of Germany confirmed the understanding contained in U.S. diplomatic note No. 165 on August 3, 1984. The German legislation appears at 20 I.L.M. 393 (1981) and 21 I.L.M. 832 (1982).]

* [Prance confirmed the understanding contained in U.S. diplomatic note No. 166 on August 3, 1984. The French legislation appears at 21 I.L.M. 808 (1982).]

* [Japan confirmed the understanding contained in U.S. diplomatic note No. 167 on August 3, 1984. The Japanese legislation appears at 22 I.L.M. 102 (1983).]

* [The parties to the Agreement concerning Interim Arrangements relating to Polymetallic Nodules of the Deep Sea Bed are Prance, Federal Republic of Germany, the United Kingdom and the U.S. That agreement appears at 21 I.L.M. 950 (1982) .]