Amendments to the Rules of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea as adopted by the Tribunal on 17 March 2009

• Year: 2009

AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES OF THE

INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE LAW OF THE SEA

as adopted by the Tribunal on 17 March 2009

The Tribunal,

Acting pursuant to article 16 of the Statute of the International Tribunal for the

Law of the Sea, Annex VI to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the

Sea,

Adopts the following amendments to the Rules of the Tribunal of

28 October 1997:

(i) Article 113, paragraph 3 shall be amended to read as follows:

“Unless the parties agree otherwise, the Tribunal shall determine

whether the bond or other financial security shall be posted with the

Registrar or with the detaining State.”

(ii) Article 114, paragraph 1 shall be amended to read as follows:

“If the bond or other financial security has been posted with the

Registrar, the detaining State shall be promptly notified thereof.”

(iii) Article 114, paragraph 3 shall be amended to read as follows:

“The bond or other financial security shall be endorsed or transmitted,

to the extent that it is not required to satisfy the final judgment, award

or decision, to the party at whose request the bond or other financial

security is issued.”

Decides that these amendments enter into force forthwith.

Done in English and in French, both texts being authoritative, in the

Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, this seventeenth day of March, two

thousand and nine.

(signed)

JOSÉ LUÍS JESUS,

President

(signed)

PHILIPPE GAUTIER,

Registrar