تحديد المنطقة الاقتصادية الجزائرية الخالصة بموجب المرسوم الرئاسي رقم 18-96: الظروف والتداعيات

Abstract EN

The exclusive economic zone is a modern marine dimension compared to other marine areas, as the 1982 united nations convention on the law of the sea dedicated this new maritime dimension in its fifth part, a dimension imposed by the countries' need for renewable resources, since the width of the exclusive economic zone extends to 200 miles nautical, starting from the baseline from which the territorial sea is measured, which is a significant area, especially with the considerable and huge discoveries of marine hydrocarbons in recent times.

and if defining the exclusive maritime zone does not raise a problem in open marine areas, the opposite is true in narrow closed seas, which is what happened to Algeria with its neighbors on the shores of the Mediterranean, as Algeria issued presidential decree No.

18 / 96-which is somewhat late-establishing the exclusive economic zone in the middle of the Mediterranean sea looming signs of a maritime border dispute due to the overlapping of the Algerian Spanish and Algerian Italian maritime borders.