Sovereignty and jurisdiction maritime spaces

The "Sovereignty and jurisdiction maritime spaces of France" product contains the areas of sovereignty and jurisdiction maritime spaces of France all around the world.

It is constituted of 2D areas objects split into four categories :

- the territorial sea (from baselines to a distance of 12 nautical miles or to maritime boundaries with neighbouring countries);

- the contiguous zone (from 12 nautical miles to 24 nautical miles from the baselines or to maritime boundaries with neighbouring countries);

- the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) (from 12 nautical miles to 200 nautical miles from the baselines or to maritime boundaries with neighbouring countries);

- the continental shelf over the 200 nautical miles limit (from 200 nautical miles from the baselines to the limits recommended by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) or to the maritime boundaries with neighbouring countries).

Internal waters, which constitute a space of sovereignty beyond the baselines, are not included in the "Sovereignty and jurisdiction maritime spaces of France" product.

The "Sovereignty and jurisdiction maritime spaces of France" product may not be considered as an enforceable right. Only the “Maritime limits and boundaries” product, that can be displayed and interrogated on the website data.shom.fr (maritime boundaries category) and also downloaded on the French national portal of maritime limits ( https://maritimelimits.gouv.fr), may be considered so.

December 2022 version.

Citation proposal
Shom. Sovereignty and jurisdiction maritime spaces. https://services.data.shom.fr:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/BDML_ESPACES_MARITIMES.xml

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Date ( Revision ): 2023-01-13

Identifier: http://www.shom.fr/BDML/ESPACES_MARITIMES

Author

Shom

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BREST

29200

France

Keywords ( Theme )

maritime limits
regulation
law of the sea
maritime space
jurisdiction
open data
Product

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

Administrative units

INSPIRE Spatial scope

Nationales

High-value dataset categories

Géospatiales

Use limitation: Data free of use by acknowledging its source. Open licence Etalab v. 2.0 avril 2017.

Use limitation: Product not certified for navigation

Use limitation: Data free of use by acknowledging its source. Open licence Etalab v. 2.0 avril 2017.

Access constraints: License

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Open licence Etalab v. 2.0 avril 2017.

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Pas de restriction d'accès public. No public access restrictions.

Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Vector

Metadata language: fre French

Character set: utf8 UTF8

Topic category

Boundaries

Distribution format

SHP
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inapplicable
)
GML
(
3.2
)

Point of contact

Shom

OnLine resource

French national portal of maritime limits

OnLine resource: ESPACES_MARITIMES_BDD_WMSV
Access point / WMS vector

OnLine resource: ESPACES_MARITIMES_PYR_PNG_3857_WMSR
Access point / WMS raster

OnLine resource: Download service - Sovereignty and jurisdiction maritime spaces

OnLine resource: ESPACES_MARITIMES_BDD_WFS:au_territorial_sea
Access point territorial sea

OnLine resource: ESPACES_MARITIMES_BDD_WFS:au_contiguous_zone
Access point contiguous zone

OnLine resource: ESPACES_MARITIMES_BDD_WFS:au_continental_shelf
Access point continental shelf

OnLine resource: ESPACES_MARITIMES_BDD_WFS:au_exclusive_economic_zone
Access point exclusive economic zone

OnLine resource

Shom geoportal

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication ): 2014-04-17

Explanation: Information sur la conformité de la ressource à une spécification (INSPIRE).

Pass: true

Conformance result

Date ( Publication ): 2010-11-23

Explanation: Information sur la conformité au règlement d'interopérabilité des séries et des services de données géographiques.

Pass: true

Statement

The areas of French sovereignty and jurisdiction maritime spaces are prepared with the following elements:

- Outer limits of the territorial sea, the contiguous zone and EEZ ;

- Maritime boundaries related to maritime boundaries agreements or decisions from the international tribunal and unilaterally claimed maritime spaces limits ;

- Outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles ;

- Straight baselines ;

- low water lines.

The territorial sea areas are limited landward by the baselines, made of straight baselines and low water lines. Those low water line elements are corresponding to the knowledge at the time of the online baselines decrees publications. They had been used to compute the limits of the maritime spaces published in decrees. Differences may appear between those low water line elements and the one displayed on Shom's current paper charts or ENCs.