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" Installations used for carrying out activities in the Area shall be subject to the following conditions: (a) such installations shall be erected, emplaced and removed solely in accordance with this Part and subject to the rules, regulations and procedures of the Authority. Due notice must be given of the erection, emplacement and removal of such installations, and permanent means for giving warning of their presence must be maintained; (b) such installations may not be established where interference may be caused to the use of recognized sea lanes essential to international navigation or in areas of intense fishing activity; (c) safety zones shall be established around such installations with appropriate markings to ensure the safety of both navigation and the installations. The configuration and location of such safety zones shall not be such as to form a belt impeding the lawful access of shipping to particular maritime zones or navigation along international sea lanes; (d) such installations shall be used exclusively for peaceful purposes; (e) such installations do not possess the status of islands. They have no territorial sea of their own, and their presence does not affect the delimitation of the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone or the continental shelf."
DEFINITION OF TERMS IN THIS CLAUSE
➡ Abbreviation for Exclusive Economic Zone (defined in the Law of the Sea Convention).
➡ Refers to the joint France-Cote d´Ivoire-Senegal fleet that targets tropical tunas off Africa.
➡ harvest of uncultured fish from water bodies.
➡ cold-blooded aquatic vertebrate with gills, no digits, and no limbs other than fins which swims by using its fins and tail.
➡ Sector or activity of harvesting fish from the wild.
➡ the salt water that covers most of the earth's surface and surrounds its continents and islands
➡ an official route at sea usually designate or prescribe by the coastal State for the regulation of passage traffic. It is regularly used by ships and other sea vessels during passage.
➡ a large boat that carries people or goods across the seas or oceans
➡ the transport of goods by sea or some other means; business of carrying goods, especially in ship
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