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It is understood that rights to the exploration and exploitation of natural resources shall be regarded as immovable property located in the Contracting State to whose territorial sea and any area beyond and adjacent to its territorial sea as meant in subparagraph b) of paragraph 1 of Article 3, within which that State, in accordance with international law, exercises jurisdiction or sovereign rights, including the seabed – and subsoil thereof, these rights apply, and that these rights are regarded as assets of a permanent establishment in that State. Furthermore, it is understood that the aforementioned rights include rights to interests in, or benefits from assets that arise from, that exploration or exploitation.