Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Convention on the Continental Shelf was an international treaty created to codify the rules of international law relating to continental shelves.The treaty, after entering into force 10 June 1964, established the rights of a sovereign state over the continental shelf surrounding it, if there be any.
Exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of the North Sea. The North Sea coast of Germany is concave, but those of the Netherlands and Denmark are convex. If the delimitation had been determined by the equidistance rule ("drawing a line each point of which is equally distant from each shore"), Germany would have received a smaller portion of the resource-rich shelf relative to the two other states.
For example, Article 6 of the 1958 Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf explains: "Where the same continental shelf is adjacent to the territories of two or more States whose coasts are opposite each other, the boundary of the continental shelf appertaining to such States shall be determined by agreement between them.
Convention on the Continental Shelf, entry into force: 10 June 1964; Convention on the High Seas, entry into force: 30 September 1962; Convention on Fishing and Conservation of Living Resources of the High Seas, entry into force: 20 March 1966; Although UNCLOS I was considered a success, it left open the important issue of breadth of ...
An Act to make provision as to the exploration and exploitation of the continental shelf; to enable effect to be given to certain provisions of the Convention on the High Seas done in Geneva on 29th April 1958; and for matters connected with those purposes.
The Philippines said it was using an entitlement under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea to establish the outer limits of its continental shelf, comprising the seabed and subsoil of the ...
An Act to make provision as to the exploration and exploitation of the continental shelf; to enable effect to be given to certain provisions of the Convention on the High Seas done in Geneva on 29th April 1958; and for matters connected with those purposes. Citation: 1964 c. 29: Dates; Royal assent: 15 April 1964: Commencement: 15 April 1964
Vietnam has filed a claim with the United Nations for an extended continental shelf (ECS) in the South China Sea, a month after regional neighbor the Philippines made a similar move, Vietnam's ...