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Legal and Technical Commission Elects Chairman and Begins Review of Contractor Reports
Mié, 2010-04-21 22:00
The Legal and Technical Commission commenced its meetings on Monday 19th April 2010 at the ISA Headquarters and has elected Mr. Miguel Dos Santos Albertos Chissano (Mozambique) as Chairman and Mr. Nobuyuki Okamoto (Japan) as Vice Chairman.
The Commission has begun the review and considerations of the annual reports of the eight exploration contractors submitted pursuant to the regulations for prospecting and exploration for polymetallic nodules in the Area. As part of this process, the Commission also received a report on the completion of the training programme conducted by the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources of Germany pursuant to its contract with the Authority.
The Commission will also consider the final report and recommendations of the project to establish a geological model for the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Central Pacific Ocean, which was completed at the end of 2009.
At its last meeting during the fifteenth session, the Commission had used its powers under regulation 38 of the Regulations on prospecting and exploration for polymetallic nodules in the Area to issue new recommendations for the guidance of contractors on the reporting of actual and direct exploration expenditures (ISBA/15/LTC/5).
The Commission had also carried out a preliminary review of the recommendations for guidance on environmental matters (issued in 2001 as ISBA/7/LTC.1/Rev.1**) and had decided to return to this matter at the sixteenth session.
In particular, the Commission had suggested that the recommendations be revised to include a standard sampling protocol and a storage protocol for archive data.
The Legal and Technical Commission meeting ends 23 April and precedes the 16th Session of the Authority which begins 26 April to 7 May 2010.
