Considerations about the recommendations of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf on the Amazon fan

More, Rodrigo Fernandes

doi:10.1590/0034-7329201400107

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Artigos • Rev. bras. polít. int. 57 (1) • 2014 • https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7329201400107 copy

Considerations about the recommendations of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf on the Amazon fan¹ 1 This article is dedicated to Professor Vicente Marotta Rangel in celebration of his 90th birthday. The author thanks the comments from the Commander (Ret.) Luiz Carlos Torres, the Commander Izabel King Jeck and the Lieutenant Commander Ana Angélica Ligiero Alberoni Tavares, all of them from the Brazilian Continental Shelf Survey Project—Plano de Levantamento da Plataforma Continental Brasileira (LEPLAC). However, some possible errors or omissions are the entirely responsibility of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the position of the LEPLAC Project or Brazilian Government.

Considerações sobre as recomendações da Comissão de Limites da Plataforma Continental sobre o cone do Amazonas

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In 2004, Brazil submitted to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) a Submission for the outer limit of the Brazilian continental shelf for its extension beyond the limits of 200 nautical miles. In 2007, the CLCS presented its recommendations, however it did not recommend four areas proposed by Brazil, the Amazon Fan among them. The objective of this study is to present the main legal and technical aspects of the controversy about the Amazon Fan, in order to evaluate some alternatives for a future submission, new or revised.

Amazon Fan; CLCS; continental shelf; foot of slope; outer limit

2.1. UNCLOS art. 76, paragraph 1	Law no. 8,617/1993, art. 11
The continental shelf of a coastal State comprises the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas that extend beyond its territorial sea throughout the natural prolongation of its land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin, or to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured where the outer edge of the continental margin does not extend up to that distance.	The Brazilian continental shelf comprises the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas that extend beyond its territorial sea throughout the natural prolongation of its land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin, or to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured where the outer edge of the continental margin does not extend up to that distance. Sole Paragraph. The outer limit of the continental shelf shall be fixed in compliance with the criteria defined in art. 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of Sea, agreed on Montego Bay, on December 10, 1982.⁹

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