Our study must be ready by 2013. The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf has just recognized an extra 230,000 kilometres for Norway. Do we have to wait until the commission sets the limits of the shelf before we look at the remaining grey area?
It is my impression that we will have to wait for the commission's decision. We cannot start negotiating about natural resources until it has ruled on the limits of the continental shelf of one country or the other. Is that correct?