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    Rights of The Coastal State

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    The document outlines the maritime zones under international law: 1) Coastal states have full sovereignty over internal waters and can exclude foreign vessels, except those in distress. 2) In the territorial sea, coastal states have sovereignty and foreign vessels have innocent passage rights. 3) In the contiguous zone, coastal states can enforce laws on customs, fiscal, immigration, and sanitation. 4) In the exclusive economic zone, coastal states have sovereign rights over natural resources and energy production.

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    Rights of The Coastal State

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    The document outlines the maritime zones under international law: 1) Coastal states have full sovereignty over internal waters and can exclude foreign vessels, except those in distress. 2) In the territorial sea, coastal states have sovereignty and foreign vessels have innocent passage rights. 3) In the contiguous zone, coastal states can enforce laws on customs, fiscal, immigration, and sanitation. 4) In the exclusive economic zone, coastal states have sovereign rights over natural resources and energy production.

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    The document outlines the maritime zones under international law: 1) Coastal states have full sovereignty over internal waters and can exclude foreign vessels, except those in distress. 2) In the territorial sea, coastal states have sovereignty and foreign vessels have innocent passage rights. 3) In the contiguous zone, coastal states can enforce laws on customs, fiscal, immigration, and sanitation. 4) In the exclusive economic zone, coastal states have sovereign rights over natural resources and energy production.

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    Rights of The Coastal State

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    The document outlines the maritime zones under international law: 1) Coastal states have full sovereignty over internal waters and can exclude foreign vessels, except those in distress. 2) In the territorial sea, coastal states have sovereignty and foreign vessels have innocent passage rights. 3) In the contiguous zone, coastal states can enforce laws on customs, fiscal, immigration, and sanitation. 4) In the exclusive economic zone, coastal states have sovereign rights over natural resources and energy production.

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    Rights of the Coastal State the zone, such as the production of

    energy from the water, currents and


    Baseline winds;
    Internal Waters • jurisdiction as provided for in
    • The coastal State has full sovereignty international law with regard to the
    over its internal waters as if they were establishment and use of artificial islands,
    part of its land territory. installations, and structures, marine
    • The coastal State may exclude foreign scientific research, and the protection
    flag vessels from its internal waters and preservation of the marine
    subject to the right of entry of vessels in environment, and
    distress. • other rights and duties provided for under
    • The right of innocent passage does not international law.
    apply in internal waters.
    Continental Shelf
    Territorial Sea • The continental shelf of a coastal State is
    • The coastal State exercises sovereignty comprised of the seabed and subsoil of
    over its territorial sea, the airspace above the submarine areas that extend beyond
    it, and the seabed and subsoil beneath it. its territorial sea throughout the natural
    • Foreign flag ships enjoy the right of prolongation of its land territory to the
    innocent passage while transiting the outer edge of the continental margin, or
    territorial sea subject to laws and to a distance of 200 nm from its baselines
    regulations adopted by the coastal State where the outer edge of the continental
    that are in conformity with the Law of the margin does not extend up to that
    Sea Convention and other rules of distance. (The extent of the continental
    international law relating to such passage. shelf can also be limited by a maritime
    boundary with another coastal State.)
    Contiguous Zone • A coastal State has sovereign rights and
    • In its contiguous zone, a coastal State exclusive jurisdiction over its continental
    may exercise the control necessary to shelf for the purpose of exploring it and
    prevent the infringement of its customs, exploiting its natural resources, as well
    fiscal, immigration or sanitary laws and as for other purposes specified in the Law
    regulations within its territory or territorial of the Sea Convention.
    sea, and punish infringement of those • The natural resources of the continental
    laws and regulations committed within its shelf consist of the mineral and other
    territory or territorial sea. non-living resources of the seabed and
    • Additionally, in order to control trafficking subsoil together with living organisms
    in archaeological and historical objects belonging to sedentary species, that is to
    found at sea, a coastal State may say, organisms which, at the harvestable
    presume that their removal from the stage, either are immobile on or under
    seabed of the contiguous zone without its the seabed or are unable to move except
    consent is unlawful. in constant physical contact with the
    seabed or subsoil.
    Exclusive Economic Zone
    • sovereign rights for the purpose of
    exploring, exploiting, conserving and
    managing natural resources, whether
    living or nonliving, of the seabed and
    subsoil and the superjacent waters and
    with regard to other activities for the
    economic exploitation and exploration of
    Source: https://www.noaa.gov/maritime-zones-and-boundaries

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