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NAMIBIA

SUBMISSION IN REFERENCE TO DUE PUBLICITY OBLIGATIONS PURSUANT TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA (UNCLOS)

Note verbale dated ... : Namibia has not adopted or enacted legislation relating to the innocent passage through the territorial sea, neither sea lanes or traffic separation schemes have been established

Relevant article of UNCLOS: 21(3); 22(4)

LOSIC No. 5

Communications received by the Secretary-General in connection with the submission in reference to due publicity obligations

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CONTINENTAL SHELF BEYOND 200 NAUTICAL MILES FROM THE BASELINES FROM WHICH THE BREADTH OF THE TERRITORIAL SEA IS MEASURED
Submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf made on 12 May 2009

OTHER INFORMATION

Legislation
 Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone of Namibia, Act No. 3 of 1990, 30 June 1990
 Proclamation by the President of the Republic of Namibia
 Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone of Namibia Amendment Act, 1991

Maritime boundary delimitation agreements
 and other material
with South Africa
 Treaty between the Government of the Republic of Namibia and  the Government of the Republic of South Africa  with respect to Walvis Bay and the off-shore Islands, 28 February 1994

with Angola
 Accord on the delimitation of the maritime border between Angola and Namibia, 4 June 2002
 
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