Noting that Article 4 of GA#526 requires member states "to conduct impact studies to determine if proceeding with land reclamation will not violate" its provisions, even though Article 1b defines an impact study as "an independent survey conducted to determine the potential ecological impacts of land reclamation,"
Deducing that member states (unlike private enterprises) are completely prohibited from embarking on land reclamation under GA#526, given that they cannot conduct "an independent survey" of the "potential ecological impacts" of their own projects,
Concerned that GA#526 requires that member states submit the results of their Article 4 impact studies to the Environmental Survey of the World Assembly (ESWA) to determine if the land reclamation projects in question should receive a permit, that ESWA grant permits only to land reclamation projects that comply with GA#526's provisions (or where not granting them would "severely imperil the health of a nation’s population" or harm the environment more than granting them would), and that no land reclamation may commence without an ESWA permit,
Believing that individual member states - not ESWA - are best placed to determine whether any land reclamation planned within their jurisdiction complies with international law (never mind whether it offers better health or environmental benefits than doing nothing), and to grant or deny permits accordingly, and
Convinced that the establishment of an international bureaucracy to approve or reject all proposed land reclamation projects in member states is not a more worthy, needly or timely goal of this body than (for example) requiring member states to outlaw torture or take action against racial discrimination...
The General Assembly hereby repeals GA#526 "Land Reclamation Regulation."
