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Rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf.

Island Disputes and the Law of the Sea: An Examination of Sovereignty and ... - Page 14
by Robert W. Smith, Bradford L. Thomas - 1998 - 27 pages
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Documents of the New York Session, 10 March--7 May 1976

Renate Platzöder - Law - 1976 - 336 pages

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Law of the Sea: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oceans and International ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Oceans and International Environment - Government publications - 1976 - 52 pages

...This article was generally acceptable to the committee. The Geneva Single Negotiating Text provides that rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall not have an economic zone or continental shelf. A proposal to delete this reference drew strong, but...

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Legislative hearings - 1976 - 1730 pages

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Law of the Sea: Conference Outcomes and Problems of Implementation : Proceedings

Law of the Sea Institute - Law - 1977 - 458 pages

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Informal Composite Negotiating Text

United States. Delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, 3rd, 1973-1982, New York, N.Y., etc - Marine pollution - 1977 - 222 pages

...island is a naturally formed aree of land, surrounded by water, vhich is above water at high tide. -683. Rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic...have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf. PART IX ENCLOSED OR SEMI-ENCLOSED SEAS Article 122 Definition For the purposes of this Part, "enclosed...

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The International Legal Regime of Artificial Islands

N. Papadakis - Law - 1977 - 306 pages

...applicable to other land territory." Paragraph 3 introduces the following exception to the said rule: "Rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic...have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf " (28). 4. Low-Tide Elevations The term 'low-tide elevations' refers collectively to drying rocks,...

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