Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage Resulting from Exploration for and Exploitation of Seabed Mineral Resources

Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage resulting from Exploration for and Exploitation of Seabed Natural Resources,London 1976

Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage resulting from Exploration for and Exploitation of Seabed Mineral Resources

Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage Resulting from Exploration for and Exploitation of Seabed Mineral Resources

IARIW Special Conference on the Depletion of Subsoil Assets

underwater mineral resources [ marine granulate | mining of the sea-bed | phosphorite | polymetallic nodule | Marine mining(STW) | marine sediments(UNBIS) ]

(ii) the term “Denmark” means the Kingdom of Denmark including any area outside the territorial sea of Denmark which in accordance with international law has been or may hereafter be designated under Danish laws as an area within which Denmark may exercise sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring and exploiting the natural resources of the seabed, its subsoil and the superjacent waters and the airspace above those waters and with regard to other activities for the economic exploitation and exploration of the area; the term does not comprise the Faroe Islands and Greenla ...[+++]nd;

I have to stress another feature of Bill C-7 that reinforces its uniqueness: for the first time, the Government of Canada has agreed to participate in the establishment of a marine park without claiming in return the ownership on the seabed and the sub-soil and ground resources.

Mr. Saunders: That is describing where it is, but the convention defines the jurisdiction as sovereign rights over the natural resources of the seabed and the subsoil for purposes of exploring, exploiting and all the rest of it" .

It says that we have sovereign rights — which is not sovereignty but a lesser form of jurisdiction — over the natural resources of the seabed and the subsoil.