Territorial Waters Clause Samples

Territorial Waters. (1) The territorial waters of the BJE shall stretch beyond the BJE internal waters up to the Republic of the Philippines (RP) baselines southeast and southwest of mainland Mindanao. Beyond the fifteen (15) kilometers internal waters, the Central Government and the BJE shall exercise joint jurisdiction, authority and management over areas and all natural resources, living and non-living contained therein. The details of such management of the Territorial Waters shall be provided in an agreement to be entered into by the Parties. (2) The boundaries of the territorial waters shall stretch beyond the 15-km BJE internal waters up to the Central Government's baselines under existing laws. In the southern and eastern part of the BJE, it shall be demarcated by a line drawn from the Maguling Point, Palimbang, Province of Sulta Kudarat up to the straight baselines of the Philippines. On the northwestern part, it shall be demarcated by a line drawn from Little ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ Island, Zamboanga City, up to Naris Point, Bataraza, Palawan. On the western part of Palawan, it shall be demarcated by a line drawn from the boundary of Bataraza and Rizal up to the straight baselines of the Philippines. The final demarcation shall be determined by a joint technical body composed of duly-designated representatives of both Parties, in coordination with the appropriate Central Government agency in accordance with the above guidelines.

Territorial Waters. (1) The territorial waters of the BJE shall stretch beyond the BJE internal waters up to the Republic of the Philippines (RP) baselines southeast and southwest of mainland Mindanao. Beyond the fifteen (15) kilometers internal waters, the Central Government and the BJE shall exercise joint jurisdiction, authority and management over areas and all natural resources, living and non-living contained therein. The details of such management of the Territorial Waters shall be provided in an agreement to be entered into by the Parties. (2) The boundaries of the territorial waters shall stretch beyond the 15-km BJE internal waters up to the Central Government's baselines under existing laws. In the southern and eastern part of the BJE, it shall be demarcated by a line drawn from the Maguling Point, Palimbang, Province of Sulta Kudarat up to the straight baselines of the Philippines. On the northwestern part, it shall be demarcated by a line drawn from Little ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ Island, Zamboanga City, up to Naris Point, Bataraza, Palawan. On the western part of Palawan, it shall be demarcated by a line drawn from the boundary of Bataraza and Rizal up to the straight baselines of the Philippines. The final demarcation shall be determined by a joint technical body composed of duly-designated representatives of both Parties, in coordination with the appropriate Central Government agency in accordance with the above guidelines. 2. k Demarcation and Status of Territorial Waters: The demarcation and status of the BJE territorial waters shall be finally determined with the demarcation and final status of Category B territory of the BJE. 3. From and after entrenchment of compact rights over the Bangsamoro homeland and the territorial jurisdictions for associative governance shall likewise embrace those under proclamation for agricultural and human settlements intended for the Bangsamoro people, all alienable and disposable lands, pasture lands, timberlands together with all existing civil and military reservations, parks, old growth or natural forests declared as forest reserves, watersheds, mangroves, fishponds, wetlands, marshes, inland bodies of water, and all bays, straits and channels found within the BJE. 4. All territorial and geographic areas in Mindanao and its adjacent islands including Palawan, and the Sulu archipelago that have been declared recognized, and/or delineated as ancestral domain and ancestral land of the Bangsamoro people as their geographic areas, inclusive of set...

Territorial Waters. In the statement accompanying the Egyptian ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982, the opening statement was: “Egypt determines the width of its territorial sea to 12 nautical miles, pursuant to Article 5 of the Order of 18 January 1951, as amended on February 17, 1958, in line with the provisions of Article 3 of the Convention.” The territorial waters have been defined as the waters spanning 12 nautical miles to the sea of "inland waters", this is theoretically true, but in order to conform the convention it would be more appropriate to Say that it extends towards the sea from the "baseline". Furthermore, the Decree continues to establish baseline mapping rules in a mix of regular and straight baselines, rather than article 14 of the Convention.