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IOC Questionnaire n.3 form The United Nations General Assembly through Resolution A/RES/56/12 (para 23) and the IOC Executive Council through Resolution EC-XXXV-7, both required the IOC to draft and issue a Questionnaire to survey the practice of States with respect to Parts XIII (MSR) and XIV (TMT) of the UNCLOS. The Advisory Body of Experts on the Law of the Sea (IOC/ABE-LOS) worked in several templates and finally provided with the Questionnaire n.3, on which the IOC Secretariat has been compiling information from Member States.The purpose of the survey and the subsequent data compilation and analysis was to: - to assess the problems encountered in the implementation of the marine scientific research (MSR) regime as established by Part XIII of UNCLOS (Section One),
- to assist States in establishing generally accepted guidelines, criteria and standards for the transfer of marine technology (TMT) in accordance with Article 271 of UNCLOS (Section Two) and to inform the international community as to the status of MSR and TMT and practical issues raised in their implementation.
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