Advanced Search

The Law On The Boundaries Of The Territorial Waters Of Finland

Original Language Title: Laki Suomen aluevesien rajoista

Subscribe to a Global-Regulation Premium Membership Today!

Key Benefits:

Subscribe Now for only USD$40 per month.

Law on the boundaries of Finnish territorial waters

See the copyright notice Conditions of use .

In accordance with the decision of the Parliament:

ARTICLE 1 (5.3.1965)

The territorial waters of Finland include the part of the sea immediately associated with the territory of the kingdom, to which the Gulf of Finland is restricted in the Gulf of Finland in the Gulf of Finland by the Paris Peace Agreement signed on 10 February 1947 (690-691/47). , and on 20 May 1965 for the Island of Haapasaari, between the Government of the Republic of Finland and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics between the Government of the Republic of Finland and the Government of the Soviet Union, as provided for in the Agreement in the Gulf of Finland The maritime border of the kingdom and the west of Sweden against Sweden in the Peräsea In the archipelago following the peace of Hamina in Tornio on 19 January 1811, according to the topographical explanation signed on 19 January 1811, with Sweden, on the fixing of the continental platform on the Peräsea, the Selfish Sea, the Åland Sea and the northernmost part of the Baltic Sea The Agreement of 29 September 1972 and the Maritime Borders of the Kingdom provided for in the revision in 1981. In the Åland Sea, the north and north of Märket, as a border with Sweden, is the sea border of the Reich as provided for in the abovementioned Agreement of 1972, as laid down in the abovementioned Agreement of 1972, And with Sweden in the Agreement of 2 June 1994 on the fixing of the border between the continental shelf and the fishing zone of Finland and the Swedish economic zone in the Åland Islands and the northern Baltic Sea (983/95) . The territorial waters of the regional waters are international waters. (3.3.1995)

Far away from a lonely island in the sea, a group of caves, a herd or a group of them may have separate territorial waters.

ARTICLE 2

The regions are divided into internal waters and external territorial waters, i.e. the territorial sea.

ARTICLE 3 (3.3.1995)

Inland territorial waters means the part of the territorial waters which is constrained by the coastline of the country along the lines of the theoretical average water level, along with the intersection of the central water surface of the river and the central water surface of the sea, as well as the sea side as an external frontier; A burglar with an angle-that is, the base points are located on the outer parts of the outermost regions, either on the mainland, on the islands, on the bones or on the rocks.

§ 4 (3.3.1995)

The base points referred to in Article 3 shall be selected in such a way as to be above the theoretical average level of the theoretical average height of time based on long-term water altitudes. However, the point at the lower level of the said level may be taken as a basis if it is at least occasionally visible and a lighthouse or other device permanently above sea level is constructed.

The basic points as well as the location of the territorial boundary of the internal territorial waters referred to in Article 3 shall be reviewed at intervals of thirty years.

§ 5 (3.3.1995)

The vessel shall be a zone directly associated with the internal territorial waters of which the external border is within 12 nautical miles from the external border of the territorial waters where this law does not provide otherwise.

§ 5a (3.3.1995)

In the Gulf of Finland, the external border of the territorial sea is a burglar, which passes at least three nautical miles from the midline and remains at all points in the northern part of the route of the route to be used for international navigation.

In the Gulf of Bothnia, the PeräSea, the Selfish Sea, the Åland Sea and the north of the Baltic Sea, the external border of the territorial sea does not exceed the limit of the Finnish fishing zone and continental platform agreed with Sweden.

ARTICLE 6 (3.3.1995)

Paragraph 6 has been repealed by L 3.3.1995/981 .

§ 7 (5.3.1965)

On the western terminal of the eastern seaboard of the kingdom, the external border of the territorial sea is directly linked to the east end point of the Paris Peace Agreement signed on 10 February 1947, to the east end of the border with the Finnish territorial sea, where: It agrees with that limit. (25/06/2015)

For the west end of the border from the western terminal referred to in paragraph 1 above, the external border of the territorial sea shall be headed for the west to the west, until it agrees with it. (3.3.1995)

In the Gulf of Bothnia off the coast of Tornio, the external border of the territorial sea is separated from the sea border with Sweden, with Sweden, on the demarcation of the continental platform in the Peräsea, the Selfish Sea, the Åland Sea and the northern part of the Baltic Sea of 29 September 1972. At point 2 of the agreement, and shall proceed to the south-southeast towards the external border as provided for in Article 5 until it agrees. (3.3.1995)

In the Åland Sea, north of the north of the Märket, the external border of the territorial sea is separated from the sea border with Sweden to Sweden on the continental platform in the PeräSea, the Selfish Sea, the Åland Sea and the northern part of the Baltic Sea, on 29 September 1972. And the external border of the north-north towards the north-northeast, until it agrees. (3.3.1995)

In the northern part of the Baltic Sea, around the archipelago of Bogskär, the external border of the territorial sea is separated from the outer edge of Article 5, at a point where the distance to the basic point south of the Bogskär lighthouse is 12 nautical miles, and is directed towards: As a direct line to the southeast of the three-mile radius of the band, the centre of which is the main point mentioned above. The outer edge of the territorial sea shall be separated from the radius of the circle at which the three-nautical miles from the southern baselines of the Bogskär archipelago are directly related to the circle, and follows this line towards the east-northeast towards Article 5. An external border until it agrees. (3.3.1995)

In the Gulf of Bothnia, the last base point on the Finnish side of the Tornio archipelago is on the Swedish side.

§ 8 (3.3.1995)

The basic points of the external territorial waters and their exact location, as well as the location of the external border of the internal waters and the external border of the territorial sea, are listed in the Regulation, which also lays down, where appropriate, other provisions Implementation and enforcement.

Entry into force and application of amending acts:

5.3.1965/14:
25.3.1966/332:
5.12.1969/78:
3.3.1995-99:

This Act shall enter into force at the time laid down by the Regulation.

THEY 114/94 , UAVM 16/94