8.3 Power and Functions of the International Sea Bed Authority

The Authority (the ISA — Kingston, Jamaica's seat): the common heritage's administrator. The organs: the Assembly (all members — the policy's organ), the Council (the 36-member executive — the chambers' craft: the geographic-and-interest groups; the landlocked-and-GDS representation — Nepal's own eligibility the syllabus's reading-list theme), the Secretariat, the Legal-and-Technical Commission (the expertise's organ), the Finance Committee, the Enterprise (dormant). The functions' catalogue: the rules-and-regulations' adoption (the mining code); the licences' grant-and-supervision (the contracts' monitoring, the compliance); the reserved areas' management; the disputes' settlement role (the seabed chamber — 8.5); the data's compilation (the marine research's promotion); the benefits' distribution (the equitable sharing's machinery — the heritage's dividend).