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The High Seas as Potential Exclusive Economic Zones in the Mediterranean

Tullio Treves

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The UN Law of the Sea Convention (UNCLOS) is the key international law source setting out the law of the sea rules applicable world-wide. The most important aspect of UNCLOS is the indication of specific maritime zones. The list of maritime zones set out in UNCLOS seems at least at first reading a closed one. No other zone is mentioned in the Convention provisions entrusting parties with the right to institute zones different from those mentioned in the UNCLOS. The aspect of the Mediterranean zonal map that seems particularly noteworthy is that more than 50 per cent of the area of this sea is not included in a coastal States' maritime zone and that it consequently belongs to the high seas. The chapter addresses the peculiar status of the Mediterranean high sea as an area in which coastal States are entitled to proclaim an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Keywords:Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ); maritime zones; Mediterranean high sea; UNCLOS

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The UN Law of the Sea Convention (UNCLOS) is the key international law source setting out the law of the sea rules applicable world-wide. The most important aspect of UNCLOS is the indication of specific maritime zones. The list of maritime zones set out in UNCLOS seems at least at first reading a closed one. No other zone is mentioned in the Convention provisions entrusting parties with the right to institute zones different from those mentioned in the UNCLOS. The aspect of the Mediterranean zonal map that seems particularly noteworthy is that more than 50 per cent of the area of this sea is not included in a coastal States' maritime zone and that it consequently belongs to the high seas. The chapter addresses the peculiar status of the Mediterranean high sea as an area in which coastal States are entitled to proclaim an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Keywords:Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ); maritime zones; Mediterranean high sea; UNCLOS

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The UN Law of the Sea Convention (UNCLOS) is the key international law source setting out the law of the sea rules applicable world-wide. The most important aspect of UNCLOS is the indication of specific maritime zones. The list of maritime zones set out in UNCLOS seems at least at first reading a closed one. No other zone is mentioned in the Convention provisions entrusting parties with the right to institute zones different from those mentioned in the UNCLOS. The aspect of the Mediterranean zonal map that seems particularly noteworthy is that more than 50 per cent of the area of this sea is not included in a coastal States' maritime zone and that it consequently belongs to the high seas. The chapter addresses the peculiar status of the Mediterranean high sea as an area in which coastal States are entitled to proclaim an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Keywords:Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ); maritime zones; Mediterranean high sea; UNCLOS

Key concepts: Exclusive economic zone, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Territorial waters, International waters, Maritime boundary, Geography, Mediterranean sea, Law of the sea

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