1 Verdrag van de Verenigde Naties inzake het recht van de zee
For the purposes of this resolution:
(a) “pioneer investor” refers to:
(i) France, India, Japan and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or a state enterprise of each of those States or one natural or juridical person which possesses the nationality of or is effectively controlled by each of those States, or their nationals, provided that the State concerned signs the Convention and the State or state enterprise or natural or juridical person has expended, before 1 January 1983, an amount equivalent to at least $US 30 million (United States dollars calculated in constant dollars relative to 1982) in pioneer activities and has expended no less than 10 per cent of that amount in the location, survey and evaluation of the area referred to in paragraph 3 (a);
(ii) four entities, whose components being natural or juridical persons
1) For their identity and composition see “Sea-bed mineral resource development: recent activities of the international Consortia” and addendum, published by the Department of International Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations (ST/ESA/107 and Add. 1).
possess the nationality of one or more of the following States, or are effectively controlled by one or more of them or their nationals: Belgium, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America, provided that the certifying State or States sign the Convention and the entity concerned has expended, before 1 Januari 1983, the levels of expenditure for the purpose stated in subparagraph (i);
(iii) any developing State which signs the Convention or any state enterprise or natural or juridical person which possesses the nationality of such State or is effectively controlled by it or its nationals, or any group of the foregoing, which, before 1 Januari 1985, has expended the levels of expenditure for the purpose stated in subparagraph (i);
The rights of the pioneer investor may devolve upon its successor in interest.
(b) “pioneer activities” means undertakings, commitments of financial and other assets, investigations, findings, research, engineering development and other activities relevant to the identification, discovery, and systematic analysis and evaluation of polymetallic nodules and to the determination of the technical and economic feasibility of exploitation. Pioneer activities include:
(i) any at-sea observation and evaluation activity which has as its objective the establishment and documentation of the nature, shape, concentration, location and grade of polymetallic nodules and of the environmental, technical and other appropriate factors which must be taken into account before exploitation;
(ii) the recovery from the Area of polymetallic nodules with a view to the designing, fabricating and testing of equipment which is intended to be used in the exploitation of polymetallic nodules;
(c) “certifying State” means a State which signs the Convention, standing in the same relation to a pioneer investor as would a sponsoring State pursuant to Annex III, article 4, of the Convention and which certifies the levels of expenditure specified in subparagraph (a);
(d) “polymetallic nodules” means one of the resources of the Area consisting of any deposit or accretion of nodules, on or just below the surface of the deep sea-bed, which contain manganese, nickel, cobalt and copper;
(e) “pioneer area” means an area allocated by the Commission to a pioneer investor for pioneer activities pursuant to this resolution. A pioneer area shall not exceed 150,000 square kilometres. The pioneer investor shall relinquish portions of the pioneer area to revert to the Area, in accordance with the following schedule:
(i) 20 per cent of the area allocated by the end of the third year from the date of the allocation;
(ii) an additional 10 per cent of the area allocated by the end of the fifth year from the date of the allocation;
(iii) an additional 20 per cent of the area allocated or such larger amount as would exceed the exploitation area decided upon by the Authority in its rules, regulations and procedures, after eight years from the date of the allocation of the area or the date of the award of a production authorization, whichever is earlier;
(f) “Area”, “ Authority”, “activities in the Area” and “resources” have the meanings assigned to those terms in the Convention.
- Regeling
- Verdrag van de Verenigde Naties inzake het recht van de zee
- Afkortingen
- UNCLOS, VN Zeerechtverdrag
- Soort
- Verdrag
- Geldend vanaf
- 28-07-1996
- BWB-id
- BWBV0003172
- Versie
- 1996-07-28_0