Discuss (d) North Sea Continental Shelf

The status: the territorial sea = the coastal state's SOVEREIGNTY belt — the full sovereignty (the land's extension over the waters, the seabed and subsoil, the airspace), subject to the international law's navigation exception (the innocent passage — 2.5). The breadth (UNCLOS's settlement): up to 12 nautical miles measured from the baselines (the long dispute — the 3- mile classic vs the Latin-American extensions — resolved by UNCLOS's 12-mile compromise); the internal waters landward of the baseline (the full sovereignty, NO innocent passage); the archipelagic states' waters (the archipelagic baselines' special regime).