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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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