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UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 69964, tabled on 30 March 2017

Question

Calum Kerr
Scottish National Party
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish a timetable outlining the measures required for the UK to establish itself as an independent coastal state under the UN Convention on the Law of the Seas.

Answer

George Eustice
Conservative
Camborne and Redruth
Commons

Answered on

18 April 2017

In accordance with international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, following EU exit, the UK will be responsible for managing living resources, including fisheries, within its territorial waters and Exclusive Economic Zone.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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