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VII. The continental shelf

Definition of the continental shelf

Training on legal issues and on the preparation of national submissions regarding the delineation of the continental shelf would be of immense benefit in building our national capacity.

My father made a shelf for me.

He placed the book on the shelf.

The bottle is on the upper shelf.

To the south lies the European continental shelf and the North Sea, to the east is the Eurasian continental shelf with the Barents Sea.

Christmas day it was out on the shelf edge.

The continental shelf and the work of the Commission

Nowadays, we don't really recognize a book as something that sits on our shelf or music as something that is a physical object that we can hold.

In other words, I ve taken off the shelf components, and I ve made a spectroscope.

Most of Ross Ice Shelf is in the Ross Dependency claimed by New Zealand.

Its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles, which is currently under examination by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, is estimated to be 953,525 square kilometres.

However, there are no fixed platforms operating in the Exclusive Economic Zone Continental shelf of Mauritius.

Mexico underlines the valuable work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, and we express our concern at the logistic implications that the Commission's significantly increased workload will have in the foreseeable future.

Indeed, without implementation, the recommendations will only gather dust on the shelf.

And donor blood must be kept in cold storage, where it has a 28 day shelf life.

Last year, Australia lodged with the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf its submission on the outer limit of the shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the territorial sea baseline.

Article 2 of the Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf states that the coastal State exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources .

It also bought a large majority of BP's Gulf of Mexico Shelf properties.

The islands are located in the South Atlantic Ocean, on the Patagonian Shelf, about east of Patagonia in southern Argentina.

In its judgment in the North Sea Continental Shelf cases, the International Court of Justice also refers to the Truman Proclamation

Some of these rascals are indeed, to put it gently, past their shelf life.

Reference was made to the Truman Proclamation in one case considered by the Court, the North Sea Continental Shelf case.

We are pleased to note the progress in the work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

If that happens, withdrawal plans will be returned to the shelf probably for many years.

Information reported by the Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

We note the important work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

In 1994 Calgene attained approval to commercially release the Flavr Savr tomato, a tomato engineered to have a longer shelf life.

2. The continental shelf of a coastal State shall not extend beyond the limits provided for in paragraphs 4 to 6.

Fiji is mindful of all its obligations under the Convention, in particular those relating to the limits of the continental shelf.

(i) Mr. Peter F. Croker, Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

From my perspective, today s off the shelf computer programs come awfully close to meeting Turing s test.

The contingency plan remained on the shelf because of the lack of casualties among Israeli civilians.

Each cheese and the shelf underneath it is then cleaned manually or robotically every seven days.

Statement by the Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf on the progress of work in the Commission

In that regard, we would like to reiterate that India has the requisite expertise for assessment and mapping of the continental shelf.

We note with satisfaction the progress made by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

I was interested in what was going on in the bag, the bag on the toy store shelf where those shrimp sat in suspended animation indefinitely.

It's a horrific story. Someone took a bottle of Tylenol, put poison in it, closed it up, put it back on the shelf.

Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf

The ice drilling project on the north eastern corner of the Amery ice shelf near Davis Station continued.

My delegation welcomes the progress made by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in considering the submissions of several coastal States.