Original scientific paper
Territorial sea boundaries in national legislation and practice of Mediterranean coastal states
Marina Vokić Žužul
; Jadranski zavod HAZU, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The paper deals with implementation of the rules of the 1982 UN Convention on
the Law of the Sea regarding the outer limit, breadth and delimitation of the territorial
sea in national legislation and practice of Mediterranean coastal states. Special
consideration is given to issues relating to the extension of the limits of sovereignty of
Greece and Turkey in the Aegean Sea, whose territorial waters are still six n.m. wide.
Only six territorial sea boundaries have already been defined between states with
opposite or adjacent coasts in the Mediterranean by bilateral treaties. The contents
of each agreement by which territorial sea is delimited - between Cyprus and the
British military bases in Dhekelia and Akrotiri, between Turkey and the Soviet Union
(now Russia), between Italy and former Yugoslavia, and between France and Italy
with regard to the strait of Bonifacio - is the subject of special analysis. There are also
considered single maritime boundary agreements between Turkey and Bulgaria, and
France and Monaco by which are also delimited other maritime zones besides the
territorial sea. The median line is the most frequently used method for delimitation of
the territorial sea in the practice of Mediterranean coastal states.
Keywords
breadth of the territorial sea; outer limit of the territorial sea; delimitation of the territorial sea; the Mediterranean; single maritime boundary; median line
Hrčak ID:
41944
URI
Publication date:
30.8.2009.
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