Seabed mining: International Seabed Authority environmental management plan for the Clarion–Clipperton Zone. A partnership approach

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Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea; 10 December 1982, A/RES/48/263, annex.

ISBA/18/C/22.

Regulations on prospecting and exploration for polymetallic nodules in the Area, 13 July 2000. ISBA/6/A/18, annex, 13 July 2000.

Regulations on prospecting and exploration for polymetallic sulphides in the Area, ISBA/16/A/12/Rev.1, 7 May 2010, available at 〈http://www.isa.org.jm/files/documents/EN/Regs/PolymetallicSulphides.pdf〉.

Regulations on prospecting and exploration for cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts in the Area, ISBA/18/A/11, 27 July 2012, available at 〈http://www.isa.org.jm/files/documents/EN/18Sess/Assembly/ISBA-18A-11.pdf〉.

Regulations on prospecting and exploration for polymetallic nodules in the Area, ISBA/19/C/17; 22 July 2013, available at 〈http://www.isa.org.jm/files/documents/EN/19Sess/Council/ISBA-19C-17.pdf〉.

Recommendations for the guidance of the contractors for the assessment of possible environmental impacts arising from exploration for polymetallic nodules in the Area, ISBA/7/LTC/1/Rev.1**.

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Recommendations for the guidance of the contractors for the assessment of possible environmental impacts arising from exploration for marine minerals in the Area, ISBA/19/LTC/8.

International Seabed Authority (ISA), Environmental management needs for exploration and exploitation of Deep Sea minerals. ISA technical study no. 10. Kingston, Jamaica: ISA; 2011, 47 p. also available at 〈http://www.isa.org.jm/files/documents/EN/Pubs/TS10/index.html#/10/〉.

Papers for the Pew Workshop on the design of Marine protected areas for seamounts and the Abyssal Nodule Province in Pacific High Seas, held in Honolulu; 23–26 October 2007, East West Center, University of Hawaii are available at the website 〈http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/oceanography/faculty/csmith/MPA_webpage/MPAindex.html〉.

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ISBA/15/LTC/4, p.3.

A full description of the scientific process and the design principles and criteria appears in Wedding et al, 2013, From principles to practice: a spatial approach to systematic conservation planning in the Deep Sea, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. B, 280, 20131684, 10.1098/rspb.2013.1684

ISBA/19/C/9/Rev.1, p. 2.

ISBA/19/C/14.

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ISA briefing paper 01/12: a geological model of polymetallic nodule deposits in the Clarion–Clipperton Fracture Zone. Available at: 〈http://www.isa.org.jm/files/documents/EN/Pubs/BP1.pdf〉.

COP 9 Decision IX/20 Marine and coastal biodiversity, Annex I Scientific criteria for identifying ecologically or biologically significant marine areas in need of protection in open-ocean waters and deep-sea habitats.

A/RES/68/70, para. 51.