VII. The continental shelf

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 .

Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

The continental shelf and the work of the Commission

3. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

Article 76

ANNEX II.

In that regard, we would like to reiterate that India has the requisite expertise for assessment and mapping of the continental shelf.

Christmas day it was out on the shelf edge.

3. Commission on the 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.

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.

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

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

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.

This year's draft resolution recognizes that the work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will become increasingly significant as more States initiate the process of establishing the boundaries of their continental shelves.

(i) Mr. Peter F. Croker, 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

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

This is the first skeleton from a southern continent, and guess what? You start preparing it.

Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf

In his opening statement, the Chairman of the Commission, Yuri Kazmin, emphasized that the importance of the resources to be derived from the continental shelf were enormous and that in future the shelf area would be the main source of world oil and gas supplies.

We are pleased to note the progress in the work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf.

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

It's true too in Argentina on the Patagonian shelf, which is now in serious trouble.

International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (1997)

We note with satisfaction the progress made by the Commission on the Limits of 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. The limits of the shelf established by a coastal State on the basis of these recommendations shall be final and binding.

In 1951, the International Law Commission included a provision in its draft articles on the law of the sea which stipulated that the continental shelf is subject to the exercise by the coastal State of control and jurisdiction for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources .

(i) Provision of support to small island developing States on the delineation of their continental shelves under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea through the Limits of the Continental Shelf Facility

Of the 23 States which do not define the limits of their continental shelf either by reference to the criteria established in the Convention or those of the 1958 Continental Shelf Convention, only two are not in conformity with article 76 of the 1982 Convention.

Welcoming the establishment of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf ( quot the Commission quot ) during the sixth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention,SPLOS 20, chap. III.

It also considered several items submitted to it by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

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.

Request landing instructions for two F86's.

This is a photograph, a typical photograph, of what the continental shelves of the world look like.

Modus operandi for the consideration of a submission made to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

8. Information on the limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured shall be submitted by the coastal State to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf set up under Annex II on the basis of equitable geographical representation.

Japan, a seafaring nation with a vast exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, is committed to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea and to the organs established under it, namely, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the International Seabed Authority and the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

In its judgment in the North Sea Continental Shelf cases, the International Court of Justice also refers to the Truman Proclamation

An outline for the preparation of a submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (Galo Carrera and Alexandre Albuquerque Galo Carrera, speaker).

2. The continental shelf of a coastal State shall not extend beyond the limits provided for in paragraphs 4 to 6.

The Commission may wish to consider whether this emerging practice should be taken into account and a time frame be established giving States an opportunity to provide comments on the addendum to the executive summary containing the new particulars of the limits of the continental shelf or substantial part thereof of the coastal State concerned.