Continental Shelf

VII. The continental shelf

Training course on the establishment of the outer limits of the Continental Shelf, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2000 present Chairman of the Committee on Legal Issues of the Outer Continental Shelf, International Law Association

Definition of the continental shelf

The submission contains the information on the proposed outer limits of the continental shelf of Ireland beyond 200 nautical miles in the portion of the continental shelf of Ireland abutting the Porcupine Abyssal Plain.

(d) Continental shelf Number of States

Adviser to the South African Government on the extension of the outer limits of South Africa's continental shelf and on the preparation of a submission to the Commission for the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

The continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles the work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

The continental shelf shall not extend beyond the limits defined in article 76 of UNCLOS and the coastal State is required to delineate the outer limit of its continental shelf in accordance with the provisions of that article.

Participant in a training course on the establishment of the outer limits of the continental shelf organized by the Brazilian Government.

11. High seas oceanic resources are distributed mainly beyond the outer continental shelf and or migrate extensively across the open ocean.

These species are found within areas of national jurisdiction on the outer continental shelf as well as on the Patagonian slope.

Japan Korea Joint Committee on the Continental Shelf

The Commission shall make recommendations to coastal States on matters related to the establishment of the outer limits of their continental shelf.

Notification of the receipt of a submission and publication of the proposed outer limits of the continental shelf related to the submission

(a) Charts at an appropriate scale and coordinates indicating the outer limits of the continental shelf and the relevant territorial sea baselines

The course covered the legal, procedural and scientific aspects of the process of delineation of the outer limits of the continental shelf.

The continental shelf and the work of the Commission

(iv) Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

The continental shelf and the work of the Commission

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the delineation of the outer limits of the continental shelf (Harald Brekke)

To the south lies the European continental shelf and the North Sea, to the east is the Eurasian continental shelf with the Barents Sea.

Last year, Australia lodged with the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf its submission on the outer limit of the shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the territorial sea baseline.

The Proclamation was later confirmed and complemented by the adoption of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act by the Congress of the United States.

At its end, the participants demonstrated a general understanding of the process and procedures involved in the delineation of the outer limits of the continental shelf.

Its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles, which is currently under examination by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, is estimated to be 953,525 square kilometres.

Sole, snoek and tuna occur on the continental shelf along the coastline.

The right to utilise continental shelf and exclusive economic zone is regulated by the Law On the Continental Shelf and Exclusive Economic Zone of the Republic of Latvia of 2 February 1993, which stipulates that the natural resources of the continental shelf shall be the property of the Republic of Latvia.

Article 2 of the Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf states that the coastal State exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources .

Information reported by the Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

We note the important work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

Open meeting of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, 1 May 2000

Two non recurrent publications review and analysis of the required sedimentation, bathymetric and distance data for the definition of the continental shelf and legislative history of the provisions of the Convention related to the continental shelf.

25. In the South West Atlantic the continental shelf and slope extends well beyond the outer limit of Argentina apos s exclusive economic zone, where important pelagic and demersal straddling stocks occur.

(i) Mr. Peter F. Croker, Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

However, there are no fixed platforms operating in the Exclusive Economic Zone Continental shelf of Mauritius.

The mandate and work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (Peter Croker)

There was uncertainty about the extent of the rights of coastal States over the continental shelf.

200 metre isobath plus exploitability criterion 41 Outer edge of continental margin,

He recalled that the training manual was based on the Outline for a five day training course for delineation of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles and for preparation of a submission of a coastal State to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS 24 and Corr.1) prepared by the Commission in 2000.

We note with satisfaction the progress made by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

Member of the Turkish delegation for the Turco Greek intergovernmental talks on the Aegean Sea Continental Shelf.

54. On 22 November 1991, the United Kingdom and Argentina made simultaneous announcements regarding continental shelf legislation.

In these areas the continental shelf extends beyond 12 miles and stocks occurring on the shelf are therefore accessible to other fishermen from within and outside the region.