Terminology record for normal baseline
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| Record No.: | 224/en/409 |
| Author: | ELAD D. F. |
| Creation date: | |
| Last updated: | 2023-02-19 00:00:00 |
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| TERM | * Normal baseline status: recommended
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| PART OF SPEECH | noun | |||||||||
| PLURAL | Normal baselines ; | |||||||||
| DEFINITION |
the low-water line along the coast of a coastal State as marked on large-scale charts officially recognised by the coastal State. It is the starting point for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea of a coastal state. | |||||||||
| DEFINITION SOURCE |
The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea | |||||||||
| USAGE EXAMPLE | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, article 5, paragraph 1 : " Except where otherwise provided in this Convention, the normal baseline for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea is the low-water line along the coast as marked on large-scale charts officially recognized by the coastal State. " | |||||||||
