It was in respect of this case that oral hearings began in The Hague last month and on which the UNCLOS tribunal delivered a provisional measures award on 24 June. This is an interim judgment in the case pending a further hearing scheduled for later this year. I regard this judgment as a significant milestone, not just in terms of our case but also in terms of our wider policy on the plant at Sellafield and our relationship with the United Kingdom on the Sellafield question. The tribunal has reaffirmed the earlier judgment of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea from December 2001, which ordered the exchange of information on the consequences of commissioning the MOX plant, and the establishment of effective monitoring measures and prevention of pollution of the Irish Sea.