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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Continental Shelf Arbitration (France v United Kingdom)

Alex G Oude Elferink

Content type:
Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

Module:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
November 2023

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 03 October 2024

Subject(s):
Equity — Customary international law — Judicial reasoning — Continental shelf — Delimitation — Treaties, reservations and declarations

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 The United Kingdom proposed to France preliminary discussions on the delimitation of their continental shelf in February 1964. The UK considered that this delimitation should be effected on the basis of the median line principle. France accepted the proposal for preliminary discussions in August 1964. In this connection France pointed out that it considered that there existed special circumstances within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) Convention on the Continental Shelf (1958) in respect of the continental shelf adjacent to the UK and France. France further stated...
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