239. As regards the substantive requirements of paragraph 30, the Court finds that the
JARPA II Research Plan, which constitutes the proposal for the grant of special permits, sets forth
the information specified by that provision. This was also recognized by the Scientific Committee
in 2005 in its review of the JARPA II Research Plan. The lack of detail in the permits themselves
is consistent with the fact that the programme is a multi-year programme, as described in the
JARPA II Research Plan. Japan’s approach accords with the practice of the Scientific Committee.