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Maritime Boundaries

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Prod-ID: DAT-104-en

Created 08 Mar 2005 Published 08 Mar 2005 Last modified 20 Mar 2023

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Maritime boundaries are established through international conventions

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http://www.eurosion.org/

Scale of the data set:

1:100000

Rights:

The layer "Maritime boundaries" of EUROSION database will be available without any restriction, since source documents are publicly accessible and for free at URL: http://www.un.org/Depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/europe.htm

Methodology:

This layer is entirely generated from the EUROSION project. Quality appraisal have been performed by an international offshore-nearshore and maritime delimitations expert usually contracted by the ICJ.

Data sources

EUROSION was a project commissioned by the General Directorate Environment of the European Commission 2002-2004.

The main source of data comes out of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), where nations define and update their sovereign claims to the ocean. Information provided by UNCLOS has been geocoded by EUROSION.

Owners:

Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV)

Additional information

These conventions list the coordinates of points which are the vertices of segments which, in turn, define the maritime boundaries. This layer therefore features the following elements: - The textual content of international conventions establishing maritime boundaries in Europe. Maritime boundaries featured in this layer include territorial waters, bi- or multi-lateral boundaries (e.g. in the North Sea) as well as contiguous and exclusive economic zones. Some fishing areas are also defined. - The coordinates of points listed in these conventions are vertices of maritime boundaries - The maritime boundaries themselves, defined as the segments which links the different points listed in the international conventions.
This layer covers the coast and surrounding seas of EU-25 as well as the sea around Iceland and Greenland. Restrictions are those cases where no regulatory text exists within the UNCLOS till now.

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Geographic coverage

Albania Andorra Austria Belgium Cyprus Czechia Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom