Granice teritorijalnog mora u nacionalnim propisima i praksi obalnih država Sredozemlja
Territorial sea boundaries in national legislation and practice of Mediterranean coastal states

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with implementation of the rules of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea regarding the outer limit, breadth and delimitation of the territorial sea in national legislation and practice of Mediterranean coastal states. Special consideration is given to issues relating to the extension of the limits of sovereignty of Greece and Turkey in the Aegean Sea, whose territorial waters are still six n.m. wide. Only six territorial sea boundaries have already been defined between states with opposite or adjacent coasts in the Mediterranean by bilateral treaties. The contents of each agreement by which territorial sea is delimited - between Cyprus and the British military bases in Dhekelia and Akrotiri, between Turkey and the Soviet Union (now Russia), between Italy and former Yugoslavia, and between France and Italy with regard to the strait of Bonifacio - is the subject of special analysis. There are also considered single maritime boundary agreements between Turkey and Bulgaria, and France and Monaco by which are also delimited other maritime zones besides the territorial sea. The median line is the most frequently used method for delimitation of the territorial sea in the practice of Mediterranean coastal states.

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