text: the Drafting Committee. He felt that all the pertinent comments which were made on these articles in the Comnunission or in the Sixth Committee of the General A66em:Jly should ba taken up by the Drafting Committee. In the , sixth report, the Special Rapporteur also examined the pos6ibility of extending the topic to include harm ta areas beyond national jurisdiction of States or the so-called “global commons”. 472. The sixth report raised some complex policy and technical issues and introduced 33 articles. Many member6 of the Commssion felt that they needed - 245 -more time to reflect on the issuas raised in the report and were able to make only tentative remarks. The Commission therefore decided to come back to the i6sues raised in the sixth report at it8 next session. (al Activities- with 473, In response to some requests made in the last session of the Commission and in the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly, the Special Rapportaur again examined the pOS6ibilitieS of separate treatment in the topic of activities involving risk and those involving harm, His further examination of this issue had led him again to the conclusion that the two kinds of activities had more feature8 in common than distinguishing features, The similarities were sufficient enough to allow examining their consequences in a similar manner under a single rdgime, He pointed out that a number of recent legislative effort6 related to the 866116 type of problems had also opted for dealing with these activities together. ;LpI/ The separate treatment of these two types of activities wa8 not, however, without precedent. m/ The difference8 between the two approaches in fact were in the sphere of prevention. The Special Rapporteur noted that the obligation of prevention ’ could be interpreted in two ways! one was to take measures prior to the
analysis: The text appears to be discussing international law and policy related to environmental protection, specifically the regulation of activities that may cause harm to the environment. The mention of "harm to areas beyond national jurisdiction" and "global commons" suggests that the topic is related to international environmental governance and the protection of shared natural resources.