8. It clearly appears, from paragraph 30 of the Schedule, that a State Party issuing a Special Permit is under the obligation to provide the IWC Secretary with proposed scientific permits before they are issued, and in sufficient time so as to allow the Scientific Committee to review and comment on them. States granting Special Permits do not have an unfettered freedom to issue such permits (paras. 16-17). There is thus a positive (procedural) obligation of the State willing to issue a special permit to cooperate with the IWC and the Scientific Committee (paras. 18-19). In the framework of the system of collective guarantee and collective regulation under the ICRW Convention, the Court has determined, on distinct points, that the respondent State has not acted in conformity with paragraph 10 (d) and (e), and paragraph 7 (b), of the Schedule to the ICRW Convention (resolutory points 3-5).