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Agreement between the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark together with the Home Government of the Faeroe Islands, on the one hand, and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on the other hand, relating to Maritime Delimitation in the Area between the Faeroe Islands and the United Kingdom

Document type
Multilateral
Field of application
Date
May 18, 1999
Source
IUCN (ID: TRE-153407)
Place of adoption
Torshavn
Language
English
Subject
Fisheries, Sea
Keyword
Marine fisheries Fishery management and conservation International agreement-text EEZ-Exclusive Economic Zone Continental shelf Maritime zone
Geographical area
Northern Europe, North Atlantic, Europe, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, European Union Countries, Atlantic Ocean Islands
Abstract

The Parties have agreed that the continental shelf boundary in the area between the Faroe Islands and the United Kingdom within 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the territorial sea of each Party is measured shall be a series of geodetic lines joining, in the order specified, the points listed in Schedule A to this Agreement. In the north-east, the termination point of the boundary line is the equidistant tripoint between the Faeroe Islands, Norway and the United Kingdom. In the south-west, the termination point of the boundary line is a point situated 200 nautical miles calculated from specified territorial sea basepoints. The boundary which separates the respective fishing zones of the Parties in the Area and within which the Parties exercise, or will exercise, in addition to those pertaining to the continental shelf, any sovereign rights or jurisdiction which are conferred on coastal States by international law, shall be geodetic lines joining, in the order specified, the points listed as points A to L and as points R to T in Schedule B to this Agreement. With regard to fisheries jurisdiction and rights in the Special Area as described in Schedule C, each Party shall continue as to apply the relevant rules and regulations applicable within its zone of fisheries jurisdiction concerning the management, including the issuing of fishing licences, and conduct of fisheries, to refrain from inspection and control of fishing vessels which operate in the Special Area solely under a licence issued by the other Party; and to refrain from any action that would disregard or infringe upon the exercise of fisheries jurisdiction by the other Party or the conduct of fisheries under licence issued by the other Party.

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Faeroe Islands (Denmark) -
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