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Contracting Party
is
required to designate an appropriate
authority to issue permits,
records of dumping
activities, and to monitor the condition of the sea.
issuing permits,
to
keep
the appropriate authority
In
shall comply
with Annex III, which sets out provisions to be considered
in
establishing
(Article
VI).
criteria
the governing
issue of permits
In
accordance
with
the
principles
of
international law, Contracting Parties undertake to develop
procedures for the settlement of disputes regarding dumping
(Article X).
4.
Amendments to Annexes I and II of the Convention,
which extend the Convention to cover incineration at sea,
were adopted
Further amendments to Annexes I and
criteria on the issue of marine dumping
in 1978.
II
regarding
the
permits
were
into
force
adopted
11 on
in
1980.
These amendments entered
March
1979
and
on
11
March
1981,
respectively.
Amendments to Annex III of the Convention, dealing
5.
with
for criteria
dumping
were adopted in 1989.
sites and methods of dumping,
These amendments entered into force
on 19 May 1990.
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