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agreement over the terms and conditions of transfer, including 

 secrecy requirements and restrictions on resale, the dispute 

 will be resolved by commercial arbitration which will 

 approve the technology supplier's offer if it is shown to ■ 

 fall within the range of fair and reasonable commercial 

 terms and conditions; 



. The transfer obligations are not included in contracts signed 

 10 years or later after the Enterprise begins commercial 

 productions ; 



. Transfers to developing states are subject to the same 

 restrictions as to the Enterprise. In addition, such 

 transfers can only be required for use in the site provided 

 for the Authority by the contractor; transfers cannot be 

 required if the Enterprise has previously required the 

 transfer of the same technology (But the converse is not 

 true. The Enterprise may seek techology already transferred 

 to developing states); and, further transfers to third 

 states or nationals of such states are not allowed. 



. The Enterprise may, if unable to buy it commercially, call 



on governments of states parties to help it obtain processing 



technology. 



16. How intent are Third World nations on assuring 

 P.L.O participation in the Law of the Sea treaty? 



A. This is very difficult to judge. The Arab group strongly 



supports the P.L.O. 's participation. The consensus procedures 



of the Group of 77 appear to put the entire group behind the 



P.L.O. The Third World's behavior in other U.K. fora would 



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