Common use of Scope of Application of this Agreement Clause in Contracts

Scope of Application of this Agreement. 1. This Agreement shall apply with respect to oil pollution incidents that occur in or may pose a threat to any marine area over which a State whose government is a Party to this Agreement exercises sovereignty, sovereign rights or jurisdiction, including its internal waters, territorial sea, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, consistent with international law and above a southern limit as follows: Canada – marine areas above 60 degrees North; The Kingdom of Denmark, including Greenland and the Faroes – marine areas above the southern limit of the Greenland exclusive economic zone and the Faroese fisheries zone; Finland – marine areas above 63 degrees 30 minutes North; Iceland – marine areas above the southern limit of the exclusive economic zone of Iceland; Norway – marine areas above the Arctic Circle; The Russian Federation – marine areas above the coastlines of the White Sea, the Barents Sea, the Kara Sea, the Laptev Sea, the East Siberian Sea and the Chukchi Sea, and the mouths of the rivers flowing into these seas seaward of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured; Sweden – marine areas above 63 degrees 30 minutes North; and The United States of America – Marine areas seaward of the coastal baseline from the border between the United States and Canada at the Beaufort Sea along the north side of the mainland of Alaska to the Aleutian Islands, above 24 nautical miles south of the Aleutian Islands, and, in the Bering Sea, east of the limits of the exclusive economic zone of the United States.

Scope of Application of this Agreement. 1. This Agreement shall apply with respect to oil pollution incidents that occur in or may pose a threat to any marine area over which a State whose government is a Party to this Agreement exercises sovereignty, sovereign rights or jurisdiction, including its internal waters, territorial sea, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, consistent with international law and above a southern limit as follows: Canada – marine areas above 60 degrees North; The Kingdom of Denmark[, including Greenland and the Faroes Faroes] – marine areas above the southern limit of the Greenland exclusive economic zone and the Faroese fisheries zone; Finland – marine areas above 63 degrees 30 minutes North; Iceland – marine areas above the southern limit of the exclusive economic zone of Iceland; Norway – marine areas above the Arctic Circle; The Russian Federation – marine areas above the coastlines of the White Sea, the Barents Sea, the Kara Sea, the Laptev Sea, the East Siberian Sea and the Chukchi Sea, and the mouths of the rivers flowing into these seas seaward of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured; Sweden – marine areas above 63 degrees 30 minutes North; and The United States of America – Marine areas seaward of the coastal baseline from the border between the United States and Canada at the Beaufort Sea along the north side of the mainland of Alaska to the Aleutian Islands, above 24 nautical miles south of the Aleutian Islands, and, in the Bering Sea, east of the limits of the exclusive economic zone of the United States.