Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2019C00259:schedule:1:p20
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2019C00259
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 20/24)
Character Range: 68423–71155

the reaching of the final agreement. Such arrangements shall be without prejudice to the final delimitation.
 4. Where there is an agreement in force between the States concerned, questions relating to the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of that agreement.

Article 75

Charts and lists of geographical co‑ordinates
 1. Subject to this Part, the outer limit lines of the exclusive economic zone and the lines of delimitation drawn in accordance with article 74 shall be shown on charts of a scale or scales adequate for ascertaining their position. Where appropriate, lists of geographical co‑ordinates of points, specifying the geodetic datum, may be substituted for such outer limit lines or lines of delimitation.
 2. The coastal State shall give due publicity to such charts or lists of geographical co‑ordinates and shall deposit a copy of each such chart or list with the Secretary‑General of the United Nations.

PART VI
CONTINENTAL SHELF

Article 76

Definition of the continental shelf
 1. The continental shelf of a coastal State comprises the sea‑bed and subsoil of the submarine areas that extend beyond its territorial sea throughout the natural prolongation of its land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin, or to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured where the outer edge of the continental margin does not extend up to that distance.
 2. The continental shelf of a coastal State shall not extend beyond the limits provided for in paragraphs 4 to 6.
 3. The continental margin comprises the submerged prolongation of the land mass of the coastal State, and consists of the sea‑bed and subsoil of the shelf, the slope and the rise. It does not include the deep ocean floor with its oceanic ridges or the subsoil thereof.
      4. (a) For the purposes of this Convention, the coastal State shall establish the outer edge of the continental margin wherever the margin extends beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured, by either:
           (i) a line delineated in accordance with paragraph 7 by reference to the outermost fixed points at each of which the thickness of sedimentary rocks is at least 1 per cent of the shortest distance from such point to the foot of the continental slope; or
           (ii) a line delineated in accordance with paragraph 7 by reference to fixed points not more than 60 nautical miles from the foot of the continental slope.
      (b) In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the foot of the continental slope shall be determined as the point of maximum change in