Table of National Legislation
Canada’s Legislation
Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations, sor/2014-58, adopted 17 March 2014, last amended 6 March 2022.
Regulations Amending the Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations, adopted 6 March 2022, entered into force 6 March 2022.
China’s Legislation
Maritime Traffic Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China, adopted 2 September 1983 (revised 29 April 2021, entered into force 1 September 2021).
Law on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, adopted 25 February 1992, entered into force 25 February 1992.
Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf Act, adopted 26 June 1998, entered into force 26 June 1998 (promulgated by the Order of the Chairman of the People’s Republic of China No. 6 (on the same act) of 26 June 1998).
Coast Guard Law of the People’s Republic of China, adopted 22 January 2021, entered into force 1 February 2021.
Djibouti’s Legislation
Decree No. 85-048 pr/pm, Defining Maritime Limits and Frontiers of Djibouti, adopted and entered into force on 5 May 1985.
Finland’s Legislation
Territorial Surveillance Act (Aluevalvontalaki), adopted 18 August 2000, entered into force 1 January 2001.
Government Decree on Territorial Surveillance (Valtioneuvoston asetus aluevalvonnasta), adopted 16 November 2000, entered into force 1 January 2001.
Germany’s Legislation
Proclamation by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany concerning the extension of the breadth of the German territorial sea, adopted 11 November 1994, entered into force 1 January 1995.
Japan’s Legislation
Enforcement Order of the Law on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone (Cabinet Order No. 210 of 1977, as amended by Cabinet Order No. 383 of 1993, and Cabinet Order No. 206 of 1996), Annexed Schedule 2 (with reference to articles 3 and 4).
Indonesia’s Legislation
Government Regulation No. 37 on the Rights and Obligations of Foreign Ships and Aircraft Exercising the Right of Archipelagic Sea Lane Passage through Designated Archipelagic Sea Lanes, adopted 28 June 2002, entered into force 28 June 2002.
m.z.n.67.2009.los (Maritime Zone Notification), Deposit by the Republic of Indonesia of a list of geographical coordinates of points, pursuant to article 47, paragraph 9, of the Convention, 25 March 2009.
Iran’s Legislation
Act on the Marine Areas of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Persian Gulf and the Oman Sea, adopted on 20 April 1993, entered into force on 2 May 1993.
The Russian Federation’s/Soviet Union’s Legislation
Instructions for the navigation of ships in coastal waters within artillery range of coastal batteries in peacetime (‘Инструкции для плавания судов в береговых водах в пределах зоны обстрела береговых батарей в мирное время’), Order no 897 from the Revolutionary Military Council of 5 July 1924.
The Decree no. 4450 of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union on the Confirmation of a List of Geographic Coordinates Determining the Position of the Baseline in the Arctic Ocean, the Baltic Sea and Black Sea from which the Width of the Territorial Waters, Economic Zone and Continental Shelf of the u.s.s.r. is Measured, 15 January 1985.
Federal Act on the internal maritime waters, territorial sea and contiguous zone of the Russian Federation, adopted 16 July 1998, entered into force on 31 August 1998.
Sweden’s Legislation
Neutrality Act of Sweden (‘Innefattande vissa neutralitetsbestämmelser’), No. 187, 27 May 1938.
Regulation on the Intervention of the Swedish Armed Forces in Case of the Violation of the Swedish Territory in Time of Peace and Neutrality (Förordning om Försvarsmaktens ingripanden vid kränkningar av Sveriges territorium under fred och neutralitet), adopted 17 June 1982, as amended sfs 2019: 776.
Taiwan’s Legislation
Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Exclusive Economic Zone and the Continental Shelf, adopted 26 June 1998, entered into force 26 June 1998.
Law on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone of the Republic of China, adopted 21 January 1998, entered into force 21 January 1998.
Ukraine’s Legislation
ВЕРХОВНА РАДА УКРАЇНИ, Проект Закону про внутрішні води, територіальне море та прилеглу зону України (draft law on internal waters, the territorial sea and the contiguous zone of Ukraine), No. 2605, від 30.12.2002 року.
ВЕРХОВНА РАДА УКРАЇНИ, Голова Комітету, До реєстр. No. 0051, від 16.07.2015 року.
Law about adjacent zone of Ukraine of December 6, 2018, No. 2641-viii, signed by the President of Ukraine on 29 December 2018.
United Kingdom’s Legislation
The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2022, adopted 1 March 2022, entered into force 1 March 2022.
Yemen’s Legislation
Act No. 45 Concerning the Territorial Sea, Exclusive Economic Zone, Continental Shelf and other Marine Areas, adopted on 17 December 1977, entered into force on 15 January 1978.
Republican Resolution on Law No. 37 of 1991 on the Territorial Sea, Contiguous Zone, Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf, adopted on 13 April 1991, entered into force on 13 April 1991.
Law establishing the maritime baseline of the Republic of Yemen, adopted and entered into force on 23 November 2014.
m.z.n.112.2015.los of 7 January 2015, ‘Deposit of a list of geographical coordinates of points concerning the baselines for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea of the Republic of Yemen’.