Delimitation of the Continental Shelf (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the French Republic)
Sources — Customary international law — Equity and equitable principles — Ex aequo et bono distinguished — Equity within the law — Delimitation of the continental shelf — Relevant factors State territory — Parts of — Boundaries — Water boundaries — Boundary of continental shelf — Delimitation betwee...
| Published in: | International Law Reports |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1979
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316151815.007 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S030906710005927X |
| Summary: | Sources — Customary international law — Equity and equitable principles — Ex aequo et bono distinguished — Equity within the law — Delimitation of the continental shelf — Relevant factors State territory — Parts of — Boundaries — Water boundaries — Boundary of continental shelf — Delimitation between opposite States — Equitable principles — Equidistance — Islands — Variable weight of — Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf 1958, Article 6 State territory — Parts of — Territorial waters — Delimitation — Baselines — Whether rocks covered only at high water equinoctial springs are islands or low — tide elevations — Practice of the parties — Eddystone Rock Treaties — Operation of — Reservations — Refusal by one party to accept reservations of another — Whether affecting treaty as a whole or only provisions to which reservation relates — Effect of express treaty provision covering reservations — Intention of State making the reservation — Interpretation of reservations — Distinction between a reservation and an interpretation — Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf 1958, Articles 6 and 12 Arbitration — Procedure — Competence to determine jurisdiction — Delimitation of continental shelf — Whether extending to areas within territorial sea of parties State territory — Parts of — Continental shelf — Extent of Boundaries — Delimitation — Opposite and adjacent States — Equitable principles — Relation to concepts of equidistance and of median line — Special circumstances — Geographical and geological considerations — Proportionality — Proximity — Natural prolongation — Islands — Whether generating their own shelves — The Channel Islands — Eddystone Rocks — The Scilly Islands — Ushant — Whether full weight to be given to them — Effect of geological features — The Hurd Deep — Position of States not parties to the arbitration |
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