8.2 Exploration and Exploitation of Deep Ocean Resources

The regime (the restructured Part XI): the exploration-and-exploitation through the International Seabed Authority — the licence's system: the exploration contracts (the ISA's Council-granted — the sponsored states' applicants: the state sponsorship's craft, the sponsoring state's responsibilities); the exploitation's rules (the mining code — the still-developing regime); the Enterprise (the Authority's own mining arm — the 1994 restructuring's hibernation); the reserved areas (the licence's half reserved for the Authority-and-the-developing states); the technology-transfer's diluted duties; the financial contributions (the fees-and-the profits' sharing — the benefits' mechanism).