PULP MILLS (JUDGMENT) 103 and thereby assume the risk of having to dismantle the mills in the event of an adverse decision by the Court”, as the Court noted in its Order on Argentina’s request for the indication of provisional measures in this case (Order of 13 July 2006, I.C.J. Reports 2006, p. 125, para. 47). Argentina adds that whether or not restitution is disproportionate must be determined at the latest as of the filing of the Application instituting proceedings, since as from that time Uruguay, knowing of Argentina’s request to have the work halted and the status quo ante re-established, could not have been unaware of the risk it ran in proceeding with construction of the disputed mill. Lastly, Argentina considers Articles 42 and 43 of the 1975 Statute to be inapplicable in the present case, since they establish a régime of responsibility in the absence of any wrongful act. 271. Taking the view that the procedural obligations are distinct from the substantive obligations laid down in the 1975 Statute, and that account must be taken of the purport of the rule breached in determining the form to be taken by the obligation of reparation deriving from its violation, Uruguay maintains that restitution would not be an appropriate form of reparation if Uruguay is found responsible only for breaches of procedural obligations. Uruguay argues that the dismantling of the Orion (Botnia) mill would at any rate involve a “striking disproportion between the gravity of the consequences of the wrongful act of which it is accused and those of the remedy claimed”, and that whether or not a disproportionate burden would result from restitution must be determined as of when the Court rules, not, as Argentina claims, as of the date it was seised. Uruguay adds that the 1975 Statute constitutes a lex specialis in relation to the law of international responsibility, as Articles 42 and 43 establish compensation, not restitution, as the appropriate form of reparation for pollution of the river in contravention of the 1975 Statute. 272. The Court, not having before it a claim for reparation based on a régime of responsibility in the absence of any wrongful act, deems it unnecessary to determine whether Articles 42 and 43 of the 1975 Statute establish such a régime. But it cannot be inferred from these Articles, which specifically concern instances of pollution, that their purpose or effect is to preclude all forms of reparation other than compensation for breaches of procedural obligations under the 1975 Statute. 273. The Court recalls that customary international law provides for restitution as one form of reparation for injury, restitution being the re-establishment of the situation which existed before occurrence of the wrongful act. The Court further recalls that, where restitution is materially impossible or involves a burden out of all proportion to the benefit deriving from it, reparation takes the form of compensation or satisfaction, or even both (see Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary/Slovakia), 93

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