260. On the other hand, the reasons for supporting the two-stage approach were that: (a) it had a legal basis in the Convention; (b) an applicant was not obliged to draw up a plan of work for the Enterprise since the Enterprise was an independent body; (c) it was not practical to draw up two plans of work since this would be costly and the plan of work for the Enterprise would probably be out of date by the time the Enterprise went into commercial production; (d) since the designation of areas would be done by random selection, it would obviate the need for submission of any data and would be the best guarantee for selecting two areas of equally estimated commercial value.