1. Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic, 22 September 1992, 32 ILM 1069 ( 1992). Ireland and the United Kingdom are both Parties to the OSPAR Convention.
2. The Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping from Ships and Aircraft (Oslo), 932 UNTS 3 (1972), and the Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution from Land-based Sources (Paris), 13 ILM 352 (1974).
3. It should also be noted that the last preambular paragraph of the Rules of Procedure for this Tribunal (the “Rules of Procedure for the Tribunal Constituted Under the OSPAR Convention Pursuant to the Request of Ireland dated 15th June 2001”) provides: Whereas the Applicant and the Respondent (together, the ‘Parties’) have decided that the procedure of the arbitration of the Dispute shall be in accordance with the following rules (the ‘Rules’), which shall replace Articles 32(4) to 32(10) of the OSPAR Convention, insofar as they do not impair the rights of other States Parties to the OSPAR Convention. The OSPAR Tribunal Rules of Procedure may be found on the website of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (hereinafter “PCA”) at www.pca-cpa.org.
4. Thedeclaration may be found at www.ospar.org, where a note from the OSPAR Secretariat follows the declaration: Following the entry into force of OSPAR Decision 98/2 on Dumping of Radioactive Waste on 9 February 1999, subparagraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph 3 of Article 3 of Annex II to the Convention ceased to have effect.
5. Ireland’s Memorial, Annex 9. The Parties’ written pleadings are available at www.pca-cpa.org. Annexes are on file at the offices of the PC A.