International Treaty for the Protection of Undersea Telegraph Cables
The International Treaty for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables ( Cable Protection Convention for short ) is an international treaty from 1884.
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The treaty was signed in Paris on March 14, 1884 and aims to protect submarine cables . It is deposited with the French government as a depositary .
Damaging submarine cables was declared a criminal offense. If anchors or fishing nets are abandoned to avoid damage, the shipowner should be compensated by the owner of the cable. In addition, the cable layers were protected against hindrance or disruption of their work.
With the law for the execution of the international treaty for the protection of undersea telegraph cables of March 14, 1884 , the provisions of the agreement were implemented in national law in the German Empire on November 21, 1887. In addition, on May 1, 1888, a law of November 21, 1887 came into force, making both damage and disruption of the use of cables a criminal offense.
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- Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon . 6th edition. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1909 ( zeno.org [accessed on May 23, 2019] Lexicon entry “Cable Protection Convention”).
