1 Other nations that did not sign the Convention include Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. Japan, although initially abstaining, recently signed. The Convention will enter into force 12 months after the deposit of 60 instruments of ratification. As of December 1984, only 14 countries had ratified.

2 The books under review constitute volumes 10 and 13 in the series Studi e Documenti sul diritto internazionale del mare (B. Conforti, V. Starace & T. Treves eds.). Other volumes in this series reviewed in this Journal include La Giurisprudenza Italiana sul Diritto del Mare, reviewed at 75 AJIL 1038 (1981); Atlante dei Confini Sottomarini (Atlas of the Seabed Boundaries), reviewed at 75 AJIL 199 (1981); and Fondi Marini e Ami di Distruzione di Massa, reviewed at 75 AJIL 1024 (1981), volumes 3, 5 and 8, respectively.

3 Conforti, , Notes on the Unilateral Exploitation of the Deep Seabed, in [1978–1979] Ital. Y.B. Int’l L. 3, 12.Google Scholar Conforti elaborates on the concept of the need to safeguard the interest of mankind in relation to the unilateral or cooperative exploitation of the seabed outside the framework of the Convention.

4 The Italian title is L’Autoritá dei Fondi Marini e l’Organizzazione dei Mercati Mondiali: Limitazione della Produzione e Potere d’Imposizione Fiscale.