To begin with the procedural requirements,
paragraph
30 of the Schedul
e requires
Contracting Governments to “provide the Secretary to the International Whaling Commission with
proposed scientific permits before they are issued and in sufficient time to allow the Scientific
Committee to review and comment on them”
.
It elabor
ates further on the requirement of
paragraph
3 of Article
VIII, identifies the four types of information to be specified in the
proposals
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and prescribes that “Proposed permits shall be reviewed and commented on by the
Scientific
Committee at Annual
M
eetin
gs when possible
.
.
.
” With regard to these requirements,
the Court finds that “
[
a
]
s regards the substantive requirements of paragraph
30
.
.
. the JARPA
II
Research
Plan, which constitutes the proposal for the grant of special permits, sets forth the
in
formation specified by that provision” (paragraph
239). It then concludes that: “the Court is
persuaded that Japan has met the requirements of paragraph
30 as far as JARPA
II is concerned