2010 – 2011 Rational Statement; The Ocean and Islands Programme provides applied ocean, islandand coastal geoscience services to support countries to govern and develop their natural resources, increase their r esilience to hazards and facilitates data based approaches to adaptation. These vitaltechnical services will be strategically deployed in response to specific Member requests to assist in the development, management and monitoring o f natural resources and unique island environment alsystems and processes. Deep Sea Minerals workshop - Maritime Boundaries Brief. Arthur Webb, Deputy Director OIP; Emily Artack, MB Sector Officer; Andrick Lal, MB Surveyor . S P C SOPACDivisionApplied Geoscience & Technology Division – SOPAC l
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8/6/2019 DSM Workshop SOPAC OIP 2011 Maritime Boundaries Status
2010 – 2011 Rational Statement ; The Ocean and Islands Programme provides applied ocean, island and coastal geoscience services to support countries to govern and develop their natural resources,increase their resilience to hazards and facilitates data based approaches to adaptation. These vital
technical services will be strategically deployed in response to specific Member requests to assist in thedevelopment, management and monitoring of natural resources and unique island environmental
systems and processes.
Deep Sea Minerals workshop - Maritime Boundaries Brief. Arthur Webb, Deputy Director OIP; Emily Artack, MB Sector Officer;
Andrick Lal, MB Surveyor.
S PC SOPAC
Division
Applied Geoscience & Technology Division – SOPAC l
8/6/2019 DSM Workshop SOPAC OIP 2011 Maritime Boundaries Status
Establishment of maritime zones and boundaries (EEZ)in the Pacific Islands Region in accordance with theprovisions of UNCLOS and development of extended
continental shelf (eCS) claims.
200 300100
Baseline
Territorial Sea 12nm
Contiguous Zone 24nm
Delimitation
EEZ 200nm
Delineation
ECS
FoS
EEZstatus
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arrangements
eCS PICs with eCS potential
P C SOPAC Division
Baseline
8/6/2019 DSM Workshop SOPAC OIP 2011 Maritime Boundaries Status
•At this time only 3 PICs have declared their outer 200nautical mile zones and 4 havedeclared their archipelagic baselines. Less than half of the region’s shared boundariesare subject to treaty (21 of 48).•The development of maritime boundary solutions is a technical / legal / diplomaticprocess with multiple stakeholders – all components must equally interact to produceenduring solutions.
•SOPAC and our technical partners (Geoscience Australia, Commonwealth Secretariat& UNEP GRID Arandal) have built excellent capacity in 8 PIC during our ECS work. Weare capitalising on this technical capacity to progress EEZ boundary development,however there is often a lack of broader Govt. support and awareness to progress thiswork effectively.•Enduring boundary solutions must be developed in a way to serve multiple needs, not
only fisheries management, e.g. deep sea minerals development; security, biodiversity,conservation, research, transport, vessel monitoring, support ECS claims, etc.•
8/6/2019 DSM Workshop SOPAC OIP 2011 Maritime Boundaries Status
•Recognise that successful boundary development must be a partnership betweenSOPAC, our technical partners and PIC’s - process must be country lead.•The processes is technical, legal and diplomatic - it requires all components toproduce enduring and successful solutions.•Effective in-country progress requires a “multi-stakeholder” approach where all
relevant parties have a clear understanding of the status, obstacles and requirementsto progress towards baseline and boundary declaration - this is not just a DSM or fisheries issue.•The SPC SOPAC Division & technical partners welcomed FFA into the existingboundaries development partnership this year and this brings new opportunities.
•If you would like to discuss the specific status of your country’s maritimeboundaries please come speak to Emily and/or myself – anytime!