Judge Owada emphasizes that this do

Judge Owada emphasizes that this does not mean that the Court, as the judicial institution entrusted with the task of interpreting and applying the provisions of the Convention, has no role to play in this process. Given the nature and the specific characteristics of the regulatory framework created by the Convention, however, this power of the Court has to be exercised with a certain degree of restraint, to the extent that what is involved is (a) related to the application of the regulatory framework of the Convention, and (b) concerned with the techno-scientific task of assessing the merits of scientific research assigned by the Convention to the Scientific Committee