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Status
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| Basic information |
| Date of adoption | 9 March 1964 |
| Place of adoption | London, United Kingdom |
| Entry into force | 15 March 1966 |
| Authentic text(s) | English, French |
| Summary of agreement |
The European Fisheries Convention was adopted in March 1964 by thirteen European States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The purpose of the Convention was to "define a regime of fisheries of a permanent character" (essentially a common regime of fisheries jurisdiction) among Western European countries. The regime essentially applied as follows:
a. the coastal State had the exclusive right to fish and exclusive jurisdiction in matters of fisheries within the belt of six miles measured from the baseline of its territorial sea;
b. within the belt between six and twelve miles, the right to fish was to be exercised only by the coastal State and by other Contracting Parties which had accrued habitual fishing rights in the ten-year period prior to the adoption of the Convention (such vessels were to restrict their fishing essentially to the species fished in the qualifying period and the coastal State was given the authority to enforce this rule).
The extension of fisheries jurisdiction by the European States in the 1970s effectively brought the Convention to an end.
| Further information and references |
- Additional treaty references
581 UNTS 57