RIGHTS AND POWERS OF THIRD STATES ON THE EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE

Exclusive Economic Zone is an area of sea has an average regime between high seas and teritorial waters. At a certain extent this field includes continential shelf but provides more rights than it. In addition to the privileges granted to developing countries for to land-locked states and geographically disadvantaged states fishing in the exlusive economic zone areas of developed countries are also granted in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.More over the rights are regulated in the Convention for investigation and operation inthe region for oil and gas resources and various minerals as well as energy production from wind and sea currents. Thus any economic activity along with other rules of qualified maritime law, will not contradict the concept of the exclusive economic zone and will not harm the rights of third states, can be conducted in this area.