text: and that international law ehould provide some form of remedy. In recent international practice, harm to the “global commons” had been approached by . identifying oertain substanaes harmful to the “global commonst’ and establishing a limit about their disoharge into them. Any discharge over and above the permissible level might entail liability’ He referred to a further difficulty in applying the concept of liability, as now formulated, to harm to the “global commonett, namely the identification of the affected State. Since harm to those areas did not necessarily have consequences on States, their nationals or their property, the determination of the injured State posed a special problem, The Special Rapporteur thought that the notion of t’collective interest” could be used to answer that question, in the terms of article 5 (2) (f) of Part Two of the draft articles on State responsibility. 529. The Special Rapporteur noted that a review of State practice seemed to indicate that harm to the “global commons” had been confronted with identifying certain harmful substances or areas of the “global commons” and making them subject to certain regulations, euch as restricting or banning the use of certain substances or banning any activity which would cause harm to certain parts of the “global commons”. The most recent examples were the - 284 -Vienna Convention for the Proteatioa of the Omono Layer (and its, Wontreal Protocol) and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The trend, in the Special Rapporteur~e view, indicated that the problem w&a being confronted in the oontert of State rerponribility for wrongfull acts, He felt that that approach had some advantagee, It used the aorraept of legal injury, u/ namely injury for mere violation of an obligstion whioh rerolved the problem of having to demonrtrate harm to peraonr or ptoporty. He
analysis: The text appears to be discussing the concept of liability and harm to the "global commons", which suggests a connection to the environment and natural resources. The examples provided, such as the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, further support this hypothesis. Additionally, the text mentions the idea of regulating substances or activities that harm the environment, which is a key aspect of environmental law.