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Who Would Decide If OIF Should Be Deployed At Large Scales?

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Who Would Decide If OIF Should Be Deployed At Large Scales?

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Regulatory frameworks are in place that could provide effective controls on future OIF activities. The primary regulatory framework is the London Convention of 1972, which has 88 signatory countries, however all governments have the ability to regulate the activities of their registered vessels and activities in their ports, whether they are party to the London Convention/London Protocol (LC/LP) or not. In addition, governments that are party to the LC/LP also have mutually agreed guidelines that recognize the importance of the marine environment and ecosystem and that foster good governance for the oceans. The LC/LP and its subsidiary bodies have been encouraged to provide additional guidance specific to OIF for assessment of project proposals and on-site measurement programs that would be required for such projects. This would allow effective regulation of experiments in the development stage. We assume that the LC/LP will actively follow such development experiments and their result

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