三、缴费机制应覆盖三种矿产资源。现有财务模型都是仅针对多金属结核的,多金属硫化物和富钴结壳的开采方式和金属种类与结核明显不同。中方支持报告中关于及时处理另外两种矿产资源的缴费机制和缴费率问题的建议。
3. The payment mechanism should cover three mineral resources. The existing financial model is related to polymetallic nodules only. The exploitation technologies and metals of polymetallic sulphides and cobalt-rich crusts are significantly different from those of polymetallic nodules. China supports the recommendation that it is necessary to consider the payment mechanisms and rates of payment for the other two mineral resources in due course.
四、开发规章财务制度应体现 “公平对待”原则。《执行协定》附件第8节第1条(a)款要求,缴费制度“应公平对待承包者和管理局双方”。中方认为,“公平对待”既要落实“人类共同继承财产”原则,保障海管局代表的全人类的利益;也要遵循“健全商业原则”,使承包者有经济动力从事生产。有关缴费制度是否、如何体现了“公平对待”,建议予以澄清和说明。
4. The payment mechanism of the Exploitation Regulations should embody the principle of “fair treatment”. Section 8 Article 1 (a) of the Annex to the Implementing Agreement requires that the payment system “shall be fair both to the contractor and the Authority”. The wording “be fair” herein means that the payment system should not only fulfill the principle of “common heritage of mankind” to safeguard the benefit of mankind as a whole represented by the Authority, but also comply with the “sound commercial principle” enabling the Contractors to have the economic impetus to engage in production. It is therefore suggested to clarify and explain whether and how the payment mechanism has given effect to “fair treatment”.
五、开发规章财务制度应充分考虑陆上采矿的影响。 《执行协定》规定,“缴费率应不超过相同或类似矿物的陆上采矿缴费率的一般范围,以避免给予深海采矿者人为的竞争优势或使其处于竞争劣势”。目前的财务模型似乎并未涉及陆上采矿,特别是深海采矿未来可能与全球金属市场的相互影响,建议在此后研究中纳入。
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5. The payment mechanism of the Exploitation Regulations should take full consideration of the impacts of land-based mining. The Implementing Agreement provides that “the rates of payments under the system shall be within the range of those prevailing in respect of land-based mining of the same or similar minerals in order to avoid giving deep seabed miners an artificial competitive advantage or imposing on them a competitive disadvantage”. The current model does not consider the issue of land-based mining, especially the possibly future interactions between deep-sea mining and the global metal market, and it is recommended to take into account this matter in subsequent researches.
Thank you, Madam President.