International waters
Since the 17th century, international waters were those parts of the territorial sea bordering the land area that were no longer part of the territory of a coastal state. That part of the world's oceans that was outside a three-mile zone was considered to be international waters.
With Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of December 10, 1982 (UNCLOS), which the Federal Republic of Germany acceded by a treaty law of September 2, 1994, the territorial sea width was extended to twelve nautical miles .
According to Articles 86 and 89 UNCLOS, no state may claim to subordinate maritime zones beyond the Exclusive Economic Zone to its sovereignty. Beyond a 200-mile zone begins the high seas , which is open to all states, whether coastal or landlocked, but whose freedom is exercised in accordance with the conditions of UNCLOS and the other rules of international maritime law .
The Union law referred to in connection with the establishment of catch quotas for fishing in Union waters with the term international waters ' means waters are those of any outside state sovereignty or jurisdiction of the state. "
literature
- Frank Biermann: Man and the sea: on the social appropriation of the oceans. PROKLA 1996, pp. 17-36
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swiss Federal Council : Message on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea of December 10, 1982 and the Convention of July 28, 1994 for the implementation of Part XI of the Convention on the Law of the Sea of May 14, 2008, p. 4078.
- ↑ Federal Law Gazette II p. 1798
- ↑ United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and Convention for the Implementation of Part XI of the Convention on the Law of the Sea, OJ. L 179/3 of June 23, 1998.
- ↑ Art. 3 lit. c of Regulation (EU) 2020/123
