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Exclusive Economic Zone

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 71169, tabled on 18 April 2017

Question

Calum Kerr
Scottish National Party
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, within what time period after the UK leaves the EU it will assume control of its exclusive economic zone and become an independent coastal state under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Answer

George Eustice
Conservative
Camborne and Redruth
Commons

Answered on

24 April 2017

The UK will automatically assume control of its Exclusive Economic Zone and become an independent Coastal State on the day that it leaves the European Union.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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