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Prior Notification, Accces, and Due Process
6. States shall inform in a timely manner all persons likely to be significantly affected by a planned activity' and to grant them equal access and due process in administrative and Judicial proceedings.
Sustainable Development and Assistance
7. States shall ensure that conservation is treated as an integral part of the planning and implementation of development activities and provide assistance to other States, especially to developing countries, in support of environmental protection and sustainable development.
General Obligation to Cooperate
8. States shall cooperate in good faith with other States in implementing the preceding rights and obligations.
II. PRINCIPLES RIGHTS. AND OBLIGATIONS CONCERNING TRANSBOUNDARY NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL NTERFERENCES
Reasonable and Equitable Use
9. States shall use transboundary natural resources in a reasonable and equitable manner.
Prevention and Abatement
10. States shall prevent or abate any transboundary environmental interference which could cause or causes igniicant harm (but subject to certain exceptions provided for in #11 and #12 below).
Strict Liability
11. States shall take all reasonable precautionary measures to limit the risk when carrying out or permitting certain dangerous but beneficial activities and shall ensure that compensation is provided should substantial transboundary harm occur even when the activities were not known to be harmful at the time they were undertaken.
Prior Agreements When Prevention Costs Greatly Exceed Harm
12. States shall enter into negotiations with the affected State on the equitable conditions under which the activity could be carried out when planning to carry out or permit activities causing tansboundry harm which is substantial but are less than the cost of prevention, (If no agreement can be reached, see Art. 22).
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