Deep water road
A deep water roadstead is a sea area in the German Bight that serves as a roadstead for cargo ships. It is claimed by Germany as part of the territorial sea .
The deep water road is located around 30 kilometers west of Helgoland . From 1969 to 1983 the lightship Amrumbank was moored there .
The deep water road is already outside the 12-mile zone (territorial sea). According to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea , Art. 12, roads that would lie outside the territorial sea can be included in the territorial sea.
On October 12, 1983, the federal government decided on a so-called "box solution" with an expansion of the German sovereign territory in a part of the North Sea from 3 to up to 16 nautical miles up to the deep-water roadstead in order to enable better traffic safety for shipping and criminal prosecution in the event of environmental damage. This met both an objection from the US State Department and concerns of the German Defense Ministry, which feared analogous territorial claims by the GDR in the Baltic Sea.
On October 19, 1994 the federal government proclaimed in the context of an expansion of the German territorial sea u. a. the inclusion of an exclave around the deep water road. This area is delimited by four points:
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The distance from the furthest point of the deep water roadstead to the nearest base point is approx. 16.3 nautical miles.
literature
- Juliane Kokott, Lothar Gündling: The expansion of the German coastal waters in the North Sea (19 pages PDF). Journal for foreign public law and international law , Volume 45 (1985), pp. 675-693.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mehr Meer , Spiegel No. 51, December 19, 1984
- ↑ Laws on the Internet: Announcement of the Federal Government's proclamation on the expansion of the German territorial sea
- ^ Jan Henning Lindemann: Investigation, detention and immediate release of foreign sea merchant ships. Lit-Verlag, 1997, p. 72.