Common Contracts

Contract

February 22nd, 2002

• Filed
  February 22nd, 2002

The Governments of Poland and the Soviet Union have ratified two agreements delimiting their respective spheres of maritime jurisdiction in the Baltic Sea. The territorial sea boundary was signed on March 18, 1958, and ratified on July 29, 1958, at which time the Agreement entered into force. The continental shelf boundary was signed on August 29, 1969, and ratified by Poland on December 29, 1969, and by the Soviet Union on May 13, 1970. It came into force May 13, 1970. Both Poland and the Soviet Union are parties to the 1958 Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf.