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Law of the Sea and the UN Conventions

International Seabed Authority (ISA)

 * The following is adapted from the ISA website (12 August 2013)

The International Seabed Authority, headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica,"is an autonomous international organization established under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the 1994 Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

The Authority is the organization through which States Parties to the Convention shall, in accordance with the regime for the seabed and ocean floor and subsoil thereof beyond the limits of national jurisdiction (the Area) established in Part XI and the Agreement, organize and control activities in the Area, particularly with a view to administering the resources of the Area." *

ISA Documents and publications

The regular publications of the Authority include an annual compendium of selected decisions of the Assembly and Council and the reports of the technical workshops convened by the Authority. The annual compendium is now available only in electronic format.

Annual Session (includes links to documents from 1996 through latest session)

Legal Documents (includes Basic Texts, Publications, Press Releases, the Mining Code, News & Updates, and Secretary-General Statements)

Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS)

* The following is adapted/selected from the UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea website: CLCS (12 August 2013)
 

The purpose of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (the Commission or CLCS) is to facilitate the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (the Convention) in respect of the establishment of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles (M) from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.

Submissions to the Commission on the LImits of the Continental Shelf