Christmas day it was out on the shelf edge.

Last year, Australia lodged with the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf its submission on the outer limit of the shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the territorial sea baseline.

VII. The continental shelf

Article 2 of the Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf states that the coastal State exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources .

Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

The submission contains the information on the proposed outer limits of the continental shelf of Ireland beyond 200 nautical miles in the portion of the continental shelf of Ireland abutting the Porcupine Abyssal Plain.

The continental shelf and the work of the Commission

3. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

Article 76

ANNEX II.

At its end, the participants demonstrated a general understanding of the process and procedures involved in the delineation of the outer limits of the continental shelf.

In that regard, we would like to reiterate that India has the requisite expertise for assessment and mapping of the continental shelf.

3. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

2. The continental shelf of a coastal State shall not extend beyond the limits provided for in paragraphs 4 to 6.

Its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles, which is currently under examination by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, is estimated to be 953,525 square kilometres.

The Commission shall make recommendations to coastal States on matters related to the establishment of the outer limits of their continental shelf. The limits of the shelf established by a coastal State on the basis of these recommendations shall be final and binding.

The course covered the legal, procedural and scientific aspects of the process of delineation of the outer limits of the continental shelf.

The Proclamation was later confirmed and complemented by the adoption of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act by the Congress of the United States.

Information reported by the Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

He recalled that the training manual was based on the Outline for a five day training course for delineation of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles and for preparation of a submission of a coastal State to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS 24 and Corr.1) prepared by the Commission in 2000.

It follows from the above provisions of the Convention that a coastal State, which is entitled pursuant to the provisions of article 76 of the Convention to the continental shelf extending beyond 200 nautical miles, is required to submit to the Commission for its consideration information on the limits of its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles.

(a) Charts at an appropriate scale and coordinates indicating the outer limits of the continental shelf and the relevant territorial sea baselines

8. Information on the limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured shall be submitted by the coastal State to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf set up under Annex II on the basis of equitable geographical representation.

1. The continental shelf of a coastal State comprises the seabed and subsoil of the maritime areas that extend beyond its territorial sea throughout the natural prolongation of its territory to the outer edge of the continental margin, or to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured where the outer edge of the continental margin does not extend up to that distance.

The mandate and work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (Peter Croker)

Notification of the receipt of a submission and publication of the proposed outer limits of the continental shelf related to the submission

This year's draft resolution recognizes that the work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will become increasingly significant as more States initiate the process of establishing the boundaries of their continental shelves.

(i) Mr. Peter F. Croker, Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

We note the important work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

Open meeting of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, 1 May 2000

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the delineation of the outer limits of the continental shelf (Harald Brekke)

7. The coastal State shall delineate the outer limits of its continental shelf, where that shelf extends beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured, by straight lines not exceeding 60 nautical miles in length, connecting fixed points, defined by coordinates of latitude and longitude.

15. Notes the continuing progress in the work of the Commission, including the successful open meeting on 1 May 2000See CLCS 21. aimed at assisting States in implementing the provisions of the Convention related to the establishment of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles and facilitating the preparation of submissions to the Commission by coastal States regarding the outer limits of their continental shelf

This is the first skeleton from a southern continent, and guess what? You start preparing it.

Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf

In his opening statement, the Chairman of the Commission, Yuri Kazmin, emphasized that the importance of the resources to be derived from the continental shelf were enormous and that in future the shelf area would be the main source of world oil and gas supplies.

We are pleased to note the progress in the work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf.

Sole, snoek and tuna occur on the continental shelf along the coastline.

In accordance with the provisions of article 76, a Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf beyond 200 nautical miles shall be established in conformity with the following articles.

It's true too in Argentina on the Patagonian shelf, which is now in serious trouble.

International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (1997)

We note with satisfaction the progress made by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

In the same vein, we believe regional training courses such as that relating to the preparation of submissions to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf on the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured, which has been proposed for Accra early next month reflect synergies that would redound to the interests of participants.

In 1951, the International Law Commission included a provision in its draft articles on the law of the sea which stipulated that the continental shelf is subject to the exercise by the coastal State of control and jurisdiction for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources .