Continental Shelf
- sea-bed (and its subsoil) of the undersea areas adjacent to the shore of the state (but beyond the territorial waters), up to 200 m of depth or to the depth (beyond the limit) which allows exploitation of its resources
- every coastal state has exclusive right on the research, exploitation of the natural resources on the sea-floor and its subsoil
Territorial sea
- every State has the right to establish the breadth of its territorial sea up to a limit not exceeding 12 nautical miles
Contiguous zone
- the contiguous zone may not extend beyond 24 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured
Exclusive Economic Zone
- the exclusive economic zone is an area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea; the exclusive economic zone shall not extend beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured
- the coastal state has sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring and exploiting,conserving and managing the natural resources, whether living or non-living, of the waters superjacent to the seabed and of the seabed and its subsoil
Continental Shelf
- the continental shelf of a coastal State comprises the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas that extend beyond its territorial sea throughout the natural prolongation of its land 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
- outer limits of the continental shelf on the seabed either shall not exceed 350 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured or shall not exceed 100 nautical miles from the 2,500 metre isobath
- the coastal State exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources
- the rights of the coastal state do not affect the Exclusive Economic Zone
- the coastal State shall have the exclusive right to authorize and regulace drilling on the continental shelf for all purposes
High Sea
- the area of water not included in none of above mentioned waters is international in the sense of the rights; none of the state have to right to include it into any of its own zones
Island
- an island is a naturally formed area of land, surrounded by water, which is above water at high tide
- except as provided for in next paragraph, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf of an island are determined in accordance with the provisions of this Convention applicable to other land territory
- rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf