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Advisory Opinions are of interest as they have the potential to develop law. The Seabed Disputes Chamber possesses such competence and has already used it.
According to article 138 of its Rules the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea has such an advisory competence and – since the beginning of 2013 – it is faced with a request for an Advisory Opinion. It will have to deal with the admissibility of this Advisory Opinion in abstracto as well as in concreto and thus shed some light on the legal parameters for such an exercise of jurisdiction.