The rights in respect of the Continental Shelf do not extend to the deep seabed beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.\u00a0 The deep ocean floor is regarded as an international resort for the common heritage of mankind.\u00a0 The Continental Shelf stretches out to the outer edge of the Continental margin only.<\/p>\n
The technology for mining and accessing resources in the deep seabed is not yet available.\u00a0 The United Nations General Assembly has declared that the states are bound to refrain from activists of exploitation of the resources of the area of the seabed and ocean floor and subsoil beyond the limit of national jurisdiction pending the establishment of an international regime.<\/p>\n\n
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Continental Shelf Convention The Continental Shelf Ireland signed but has not ratified the Convention on the Continental Shelf 1958.\u00a0 Ireland ratified the Law of the Sea Convention in 1996.\u00a0 However, Ireland has thereby effectively adopted the convention. Under the CSC, the Continental Shelf extends to the seabed and subsoil of submarine areas adjacent to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31677,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13340\/revisions\/31677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}