United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)—snapshot

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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)—snapshot

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TitleUnited Nations Convention on the law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
Parties168
Adopted10 December 1982
Entry into Force16 November 1994
Full textUnited Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Subject [Catchwords]International Law of the Sea

UNLCLOS I and UNCLOS III

The International Law commission (ILC) decided at its first meeting in 1949 to consider the codification and development of various aspects of the law of the sea. By 1956, the ILC had produced final draft articles with accompanying commentary that were circulated before the first Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS I), held over nine weeks in Geneva in 1958.

UNCLOS I produced the four Geneva Conventions on 29 April 1958:

  1. Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone

  2. Convention on the High Seas

  3. Convention on the Continental Shelf

  4. Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas

The Second Conference on

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