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GUYANA

SUBMISSION IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE DEPOSIT OBLIGATIONS PURSUANT TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA (UNCLOS)

 M.Z.N. 115. 2015. LOS of 11 August 2015: Deposit of a list of geographical coordinates of points, pursuant to article 16, paragraph 2, defining the baselines for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea of Guyana, as contained in the Maritime Zones (Internal Waters and River Closing Baselines) Regulations 2015, dated 22 July 2015.

 

CONTINENTAL SHELF BEYOND 200 NAUTICAL MILES FROM THE BASELINES FROM WHICH THE BREADTH OF THE TERRITORIAL SEA IS MEASURED

Preliminary information indicative of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in accordance with SPLOS/183
Submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf made on 6 September 2011

OTHER INFORMATION

Legislation

 Maritime Boundaries Act, 1977, Act No. 10 of 30 June 1977
 Exclusive Economic Zone (Designation of Area) Order 1991- Order No. 19 of 1991 made under the Maritime Boundaries Act 1977 (No. 10 of 1977)
 Maritime Zones (Internal Waters and River Closing Baselines) Regulations of 22 July 2015

Maritime boundary delimitation agreements
 and other material

with Barbados

 Exclusive Economic Zone Co-operation Treaty between the State of Barbados and the Republic of Guyana concerning the exercise of jurisdiction in their exclusive economic zones in the area of bilateral overlap within each of their outer limits and beyond the outer limits of the exclusive economic zones of other States (with annex and figure), 2 December 2003 (entry into force: 5 May 2004; registration #: 40555; registration date: 2 September 2004; link to UNTS) (see alsoLaw of the Sea BulletinNo. 55, p. 36)

Other relevant documents

Guyana - Suriname

 Award of the Arbitral Tribunal constituted pursuant to Article 287, and in accordance with Annex VII, of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in the Matter of an Arbitration Between Guyana and Suriname
 

Other relevant material

 Letter dated 27 December 2018 from the Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

 


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