Description
All five coastal States to the Central Arctic Ocean have outer continental shelf entitlements to the seabed subjacent. Two of these five States, Norway and the Russian Federation, have completed their obligations under Article 76 and Annex II to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and have thereby ensured opposable entitlements, while Denmark/Greenland and Canada have submitted their claims in 2014 and 2019, respectively, with prospects of having these claims considered by the CLCS only in approximately 10 – 15 years. It remains to be seen whether the United States of America as a non-State Party to UNCLOS will have access to transmitting its outer continental shelf claim to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) and have such a claim duly considered under Annex II to UNCLOS.The recent CLCS recommendations to the Russian Federation appear to shed light on a number of questions that will be relevant for the admissibility of the claims of Canada, Denmark/Greenland and also for the United States of America. On the one hand, while the recommendations of the CLCS are only based on the data and other information duly transmitted by the Russian Federation, they appear dispositive in regard to parts of the claims of the other coastal States to the Central Arctic Ocean whose claims have not yet been considered by the CLCS. On the other hand, there remain numerous outstanding issues.
| Period | 9 Oct 2023 |
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| Event type | Seminar |
| Location | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Degree of Recognition | National |