Annex 4 Standard clauses for exploration contract

The standard clauses in those Agreements, which define such coordination, relate to personnel arrangements, administrative and technical issues, and budgetary and financial arrangements.

Their litigation strategy took advantage of a standard contractual clause (called pari passu) intended to ensure that all claimants are treated equally.

Safeguard clauses

Final clauses

Final clauses

Automatic termination clauses

Contractual arrangements

Contractual terms

(b) The contractual place of receipt or the contractual place of delivery or

B. Contractual arrangements

Issue 4 Exclusive jurisdiction clauses

(b) The actual contractual place of receipt or the actual contractual place of delivery or

Contractual limitations on assignments

Contractual services 4 376.3

Contractual services (increase 1,530,100)

Experiments on a contractual basis

(g) Other contractual services 2,000.

(a) the contractual place of receipt or contractual port of loading is located in a Contracting State, or

(b) the contractual place of delivery or contractual port of discharge is located in a Contracting State, or

(b) Contractual services 4 376 300

Certainty was important in contractual relationships.

Conditions for the validity of exclusive jurisdiction clauses

1. Subject to Articles 3 to 5, this Instrument applies to contracts of carriage in which the contractual place of receipt and the contractual place of delivery are in different States, and the contractual port of loading and the contractual port of discharge are in different States, if

The text of draft paragraph 72 (b) should refer to the contractual place of receipt and the contractual place of delivery.

(b) Contractual services, by 6.4 million dollars

Should the draft instrument allow for exclusive jurisdiction clauses?

Should exclusive jurisdiction clauses be enforceable against third parties?

Socio economic impact assessments should include gender assessment clauses.

In terms of another suggestion, both draft articles 17 and 18 could be drafted in the same way, either as without prejudice clauses or as exclusion clauses.

Other delegations asked that the confidentiality clauses should be retained.

Conclusions reached by the Working Group regarding exclusive jurisdiction clauses

The standard clauses set out in annex 4 to the Regulations on Prospecting and Exploration for Polymetallic Sulphides and Cobalt rich Crusts in the Area shall be incorporated herein and shall have effect as if herein set out at length.

Contractual choice of application of the draft instrument

First, clear and explicit human rights and democracy clauses should be included, along the lines of similar clauses in the Mexican and Chilean Economic Association treaties with the EU.

In particular, three types of such clauses had typically been made.

There was strong support for the suggestion that the draft instrument should indeed allow for exclusive jurisdiction clauses, particularly if the possibility for the abuse of such clauses was tempered by addition of certain conditions that would have to be fulfilled in order for such clauses to be valid.

The following experiments took place on a contractual basis

b Classified as contractual services in the financial statements.

In light of the thrust of the discussions in the Working Group with respect to jurisdiction and choice of court clauses under draft article 76, the view was expressed that exclusive arbitration clauses should be permissible and should be enforced on the same grounds as exclusive choice of court clauses.

Claims related to contractual losses and were thus arbitrable matters.

The contractual translators are used to supplement on site translators.

In most jurisdictions, this requires a contractual trust agreement or deed.

Furthermore, the Convention makes no provision for the registering of reservations on specific clauses.

See also the Swiss decision concerning the Protocol on Arbitration Clauses Telefunken v N.