agrees will promote the common welfare. No 

 better purposes can be imagined than to combat 

 world hunger and aid the developing nations. 



Nevertheless, the panel must caution against 

 any optimistic assumption that proceeds from the 

 payments called for above will be so huge as to 

 make it unnecessary, in the coming decades, for 

 rich nations to aid the development of poor 

 nations in any other way. The Registry Authority 

 will also have to keep in mind that it will defeat its 

 purposes if it fixes the rates of payment so high as 

 to discourage exploration and exploitation of the 

 mineral resources of the deep seas. 



4. Powers and Duties of State Registrant 



Each State registering a claim shall have the 

 following powers and duties: 



(a) To enact legislation to implement the new 

 framework and, particularly, to assure that: 



(i) The business entity on whose behalf the 

 claim is registered compUes with the limitations 

 and requirements imposed by the Registry Author- 

 ity. 



(ii) Due notice is given of the construction and 

 operation of installations and other devices needed 

 for the registered exploration or exploitation 

 activities; permanent means are maintained for 

 giving warning of their presence; and the installa- 

 tions and devices are removed when abandoned. 



iiii) The registered exploration or exploitation 

 activities (a) do not impede, unreasonably, the 

 laying or maintenance of submarine cables or 

 pipelines on the seabed in question; {b) do not 

 interfere with the use of recognized sea lanes 

 essential to international navigation; or pose any 

 unjustifiable interference wdth navigation gener- 

 ally; and (c) do not result in any unjustifiable 

 interference with fishing; or in any interference 

 with fundamental oceanographic or other scien- 

 tific research carried out with the intention of 

 open publication; or in any waste or damage to the 

 life or property of others; or in any unjustifiable 

 interference with any other proper use of the sea. 

 (jv) The business entity on whose behalf the 

 claim is registered takes all appropriate measures 

 to protect the living resources of the sea from 

 harmful agents. 



(v) The specified fees and payments are sub- 

 mitted to the Registry Authority. 



(yi) Such statistics and reports respecting the 

 registered exploration and exploitation activities as 

 the Registry Authority may require are collected 

 and submitted to it. 



(b) To apply its civil and criminal laws to 

 protect the exploration and exploitation activities 

 under its registered claims, including the personnel 

 engaged therein, and the installations and other 

 devices necessary therefor, against piracy, theft, 

 violence and other unlawful interference. 



The State Registrant's failure to exercise these 

 powers so as to carry out its specified obligations 

 effectively shall subject the registration to revoca- 

 tion by the Registry Authority. 



If an association of States is the registrant, it 

 may name one of its member-States as its agent to 

 discharge the powers and duties of the State 

 Registrant set forth above, or each of the member- 

 States may assume them. 



(c) To apply any other of its domestic laws, 

 not inconsistent with the recommended frame- 

 work, to the exploration and exploitation activi- 

 ties under its registered claims-such as laws 

 respecting working conditions, the production, 

 marketing and pricing of the extracted minerals 

 and the taxation of the income from such 

 activities. 



If an association of States is the registrant, the 

 member-States will have to agree upon these 

 aspects of the exploration and exploitation activi- 

 ties. 



5. The Limited Policing Functions of the Registry 

 Authority 



The panel does not recommend that the Regis- 

 try Authority be given initial policing functions. 

 The threat of revocation of the registration by the 

 Authority should give State Registrants sufficient 

 incentive to discharge their obligations under the 

 proposed framework. In addition, they will have 

 financial inducement to do so, particularly if they 

 are coastal States and the registered claims are in 

 the intermediate zone. 



However, since the Authority will be em- 

 powered to cancel a registration if the State 

 Registrant fails to discharge its obligations prop- 

 erly, it must have the means to exercise this 

 power fairly and with full knowledge of the facts. 

 Accordingly, the Authority shall be authorized to 



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