Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.51650/ezrvs.20.1-2.5
High Seas
Ante Paić
; Vodovod i odvodnja d.o.o.,, Šibenik, Croatia
Abstract
The high seas are an institute of international law of the sea codified first by the 1958 Convention on the High Seas and subsequently by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The paper examines the area of the high seas, including the peaceful uses of the high seas, the rights of landlocked states, the legal status of vessels on the (high) seas, and the right of hot pursuit. The paper addresses the freedoms recognized under international law on the high seas, namely the freedoms of navigation, overflight, laying of submarine cables and pipelines, construction of artificial islands, scientific research, and fishing. In addition, it considers situations in which the freedoms of the high seas may be abused, for example by conducting nuclear tests at sea and in the atmosphere, by test-launching long-range missiles, or by carrying out large-scale naval maneuvers. The paper also examines cases in which states are required to cooperate on the high seas to suppress unlawful acts, including piracy, the slave trade, illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, and unauthorized broadcasting from the high seas.
Keywords
high seas; freedom of navigation; United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982), international law of the sea.
Hrčak ID:
349868
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Publication date:
27.7.2026.
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