[MTOCLOS] Revisions?
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 1:08 pm
This discussion is open for member states of the MTO Convention of the Law of the Seas.
Chryse wishes to raise the following questions for discussion:
Merging reserve zones with territorial waters
- Remove reserve zones, instead let the territorial waters cover them
Redefine the km to degrees
- All border treaties referencing the MTO CLOS have used km but indicated maps by degrees. The world isn't flat, the Micras map only shows degrees and is valid for km only at the equator.
As such it would make more sense if we redefine the borders to degrees, translating 360 km to 3 degrees (which on the equator would amount to 360 km).
In reality it would mean that one's territorial waters would be wider if located further to the poles, but since de facto is the rule we have used since the implemenation of the convention, it would de facto mean no difference, only a de jure difference (but de jure we haven't followed that provision).
Chryse wishes to raise the following questions for discussion:
Merging reserve zones with territorial waters
- Remove reserve zones, instead let the territorial waters cover them
Redefine the km to degrees
- All border treaties referencing the MTO CLOS have used km but indicated maps by degrees. The world isn't flat, the Micras map only shows degrees and is valid for km only at the equator.
As such it would make more sense if we redefine the borders to degrees, translating 360 km to 3 degrees (which on the equator would amount to 360 km).
In reality it would mean that one's territorial waters would be wider if located further to the poles, but since de facto is the rule we have used since the implemenation of the convention, it would de facto mean no difference, only a de jure difference (but de jure we haven't followed that provision).