Original scientific paper
BOUNDARIES IN THE NORTHERN ADRIATIC 1948-2009 : WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON CHRONOLOGICAL CARTOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS
Zvonko Gržetić
; Hrvatski hidrografski institut u Splitu
Vesna Barić Punda
; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu
Valerija Filipović
; Hrvatski hidrografski institut u Splitu
Abstract
Maritime boundaries can be boundaries of certain maritime areas of states,
or delimitation lines of marine and submarine areas among states where the coasts
of states continue on from one another or lie opposite each other.
In this paper, all the boundaries in the North Adriatic are analysed, that is,
the boundaries of certain marine and submarine areas of coastal states, as are the
boundaries of maritime areas among states and, in particular, disputable questions
of delimitation between Croatia and Slovenia whose negotiations commenced immediately
after independence, but which have not culminated into a final solution.
Research commenced with 1948 when the first Yugoslav regulation, the Coastal
Sea of the Federal National Republic of Yugoslavia Act was enacted by which
straight starting lines were drawn for the first time through the Croatian part of
the Adriatic Sea (Art.3) and a width of 6 miles of territorial waters for the former
state was determined (Art. 5), and ended in 2009 with the implementation of the
official Slovenian e-atlas okolja (environmental e-atlas) in which the Slovenian
maritime boundary (external boundary of territorial sea waters) was drawn in
front of the Croatian coast. A cartographical analysis of all boundaries of certain
maritime areas of coastal states in the North Adriatic was chronologically given,
the boundaries of the marine and submarine areas among those states were determined
(drawn), as were the standpoints of Croatia and Slovenia in the disputable
delimitation, and the maps of their unilateral acts.
Keywords
maritime boundaries; Northern Adriatic; coastal states; maritime law; maps
Hrčak ID:
63255
URI
Publication date:
14.12.2010.
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