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U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor: Selected Documents From the Meetings Held July 20-August 24, 1973*

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International Legal Materials , Volume 12 , Issue 5 , September 1973 , pp. 1200 - 1273
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1973

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[At its summer session, the Committee continued the preparatory work for the Third U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea. Subcommittee I (International Regime and Machinery) produced a report with texts or alternative texts to be submitted to the Conference. Subcommittee III (Marine Pollution and Scientific Research) reached agreement concerning texts or alternative texts on a number of topics within its terms of reference. These documents will be reproduced in I.L.M. when the printec text of the Sea-Bed Committee’s Report to the U.N. General Assembly is available.

[Sub-Committee II (Traditional Law of the Sea Issues), although it was able to reduce the number of variant draft articles submitted by delegations, did not have time to consolidate the texts. The documents reproduced in this issue of I.L.M. are Mian Committee or Sub-Committee I: documents concerned with traditional Law of the Sea issues.

[U.N. General Assembly Resolution 3029 (XXVII) of December 18, 1972, concerning the U.N. Conference on the Law of Sea, appears at 12 I.L.M. 12. (1973). The agreed list of subjects and issues to be discussed at the L of the Sea Conference appears at 11 I.L.M. 1172 (1972).]

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1 It would seem advisable not to specify at present the body which would be competent to entertain such an appeal. It could be the tribunal of the international machinery, if that was thought appropriate, or there could be the triple possibility recourse to IMCO in respect of complaints affecting navigation, to the regional fisheries organization in respect of those concerning fishing, or to the international authority for the marine environment and pollution, if one is established.

* [Other proposals concerning the territorial sea appear at 12 I.L.M. 570, 573, and 602 (1973) and pages 1231 and 1251 of this issue.]

* [This text includes the correction for the English version that appeared in A/AC.138/SC.II/L.27/Corr.2 of July 26, 1973.]

* [This text includes the correction for the English version that appeared in A/AC.138/SC.II/L.30/Corr.1 of August 7, 1973.

(*) [The U.S.S.R. draft articles on straits used for international naviga tion appear at 12 I.L.M. 40 (1973).]

* [The Chinese working paper on general principles for an international area appears at I.L.M. page 1262.]

(*) This Chapter deals with seabeds resources, and does not deal with fisheries. The proposal of the United States with respect to fisheries beyond the territorial sea was introduced in Subcommittee II on 4 August 1972 (A/AC.138/SC.II/SR,40) (Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-seventh session, Supplement No. 21, A/8721)

* [Other proposals concerning economic areas appear at 12 I.L.M. 33 1973) and pages 1243, 1246, 1249, 1270 and 1271 of this issue.]

(*) It is assumed that the general articles of the Lav of the Sea Convention will contain an article such as Article 4 applicable to all areas beyond the territorial sea. Such an article would obviate the need for several articles making. the same point here and in other chapters of the Convention.

* The figure for the nautical miles in this Article will correspond to the figure mentioned for the concept of the exclusive economic zone. GE.73–43581

* [Other proposals concerning fisheries appear at 12 I.L.M. 25, 36 and 42 (1973), as well as page 1267 of this issue.]

* [Other proposals concerning economic areas appear at 12 I.L.M. 33 (1973) and pages 1235, 1246, 1249, 1270 and 1271 of this issue.]

a The word “revenues” shall have to be defined.

b It is understood that different rates should apply to developed and developing countries.

b It is understood that different rates should apply to developed and developing countries.

* [This text includes the corrections for the English version that appeared in A/AC.138/SC.II/L.40/Corr.1–3 of July 18, August 1 and 17, 1973.

[Other proposals concerning economic areas appear at 12 I.L.M. 33 (1973) and pages 1235, 1243, 1249, 1270 and 1271 of this issue.]

* [Other proposals concerning economic areas appear at 12 I.L.M. 33 (1973) and pages 1235, 1243, 1246, 1270 and 1271 of this issue.]

* [This text includes the correction for the English version that appeared in A/AC.138/SC.II/L.42/Corr.1 of July 20, 1973.

[Other proposals concerning the territorial sea appear at 12 I.L.M. 570, 573, and 602 (1973) and pages 1222 and 1231 of this issue.]

* [Other proposals concerning archipelagic states appear at 12 I.L.M. 581 (1973) and page 1263 of this issue.]

* [The Chinese working paper on the sea area within the limits of national jurisdiction appears at I.L.M. page 1231.]

* [Other proposals concerning archipelagic states appear at 12 I.L.M. 581 (1973) and page 1259 of this issue.]

* [Other proposals concerning fisheries appear at 12 I.L.M. 25, 36 and 42 (1973), as well as page 1239 of this issue.]

* [Other proposals concerning economic areas appear at 12 I.L.M. 33 (1973) and pages 1235, 1243, 1246, 1249 and 1271 of this issue.]

* The continental shelf is understood here as the sea-bed and subsoil adjacent to the coast:

not exceeding the 200 meters isobath or

underlying a belt of sea the breadth of which is 40 N.M. measured from the baselines of the territorial sea,

according to the choice between the two methods of delimitation to be made by the State concerned at the moment of ratification . Such choice shall be final and the method of delimitation shall apply to the whole of the coast line of the State concerned.

* [This text includes the corrections for the English version that appeared in A/AC.138/SC.II/L.59/Corr.1 of August 21, 1973.

[Other proposals concerning economic areas appear at 12 I.L.M. 33 (1973) and pages 1235, 1243, 1246, 1249 and 1270 of this issue.]