محدودية دور لجنة حدود الجرف القاري

Abstract EN

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea has attempted to conciliate the various discordant claims of the states concerning the continental shelf, which resulted in a number of legal loopholes, such as the role assigned to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, that we find very limited, Considering that that role comprises, only, assisting and/or controlling coastal states with extended continental margins, which decide to establish the limits of its continental shelf outside a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.

Consequently, the appellation given by the Convention to this Commission doesn't reflect its true role in determining the limits of the continental shelf.