6海洋法.pptVIP

 Chapter Six THE LAW OF THE SEA The Law of the Sea In General Territorial Sea High Seas, Open Seas 4. The International Seabed Area 1. The Law of the Sea In General 1.1 The important of the sea 1.2 The definition of the law of the sea 1.3 The content of the law of the sea 2. Territorial Sea 2.1 The conception of territorial sea According to Article 2 of The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: Legal status of the territorial sea, of the air space, above the territorial sea and of its bed and subsoil 1. The sovereignty of a coastal state extends, beyond its land territory and internal waters, and, in the case of an archipelagic state, its archipelagic waters, to an adjacent belt of sea, described as the territorial sea. 2. This sovereignty extends to the airspace above the territorial sea as well as to its bed and subsoil. 3. The sovereignty over the territorial sea is exercised subject to this Convention and to other rules of international law. 2.2 The breadth of the territorial sea Every state has the right to establish the breadth of its territorial sea up to a limit not exceeding 12 nautical miles, measured from baselines determined in accordance with the Convention. 2.3 The methods for determining baselines and outer limits In determining the extent of a coastal States territorial sea and other maritime zones, it is obviously necessary first of all to establish from what points on the coast the outer limits of such zones are to be measured. This is the function of baselines. The baseline is the line from which the outer limit of the territorial sea and other coastal State zones (the contiguous zone, the exclusive fishing zone and the exclusive economic zone (EEZ)) is measured. The waters on the landward side of the baseline are known as internal waters. Thus the baseline also forms the boundary between internal waters and the territorial sea. While this boundary does not mark the outer limit of a States territory, since in