Bijzondere Overeenkomst inzake het voorleggen aan het Internationale Gerechtshof van een geschil tussen het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden en de Bondsrepubliek Duitsland betreffende de afbakening tussen het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden en de Bond

(1) The Parties shall present their written pleadings to the Court in the order stated below: 1. a Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany to be submitted within six months from the notification of the present Agreement to the Court; 2. a Counter-Memorial of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to be submitted within six months from the delivery of the German Memorial; 3. a German reply followed by a Netherlands rejoinder to be delivered within such time limits as the Court may order.

(2) Additional written pleadings may be presented if this is jointly proposed by the Parties and considered by the Court to be appropriate to the case and the circumstances.

(3) The foregoing order of presentation is without prejudice to any question of burden of proof which might arise.

The present Agreement shall enter into force on the day of signature thereof.

(1) The International Court of Justice is requested to decide the following question: What principles and rules of international law are applicable to the delimitation as between the Parties of the areas of the continental shelf in the North Sea which appertain to each of them beyond the partial boundary determined by the above mentioned Convention of 1 December 1964.

(2) The Governments of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and of the Federal Republic of Germany shall delimit the continental shelf in the North Sea as between their countries by agreement in pursuance of the decision requested from the International Court of Justice.