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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Air Defence Identification Zones

J Ashley Roach†

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

Module:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
March 2017

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 24 May 2025

Subject(s):
Civil aviation — Warfare, air — Exclusive economic zone — Territorial sea — UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea)

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). 

1An Air Defence Identification Zone (‘ADIZ’) is a defined area of airspace within which civil aircraft are required to identify themselves. These zones are established above the exclusive economic zone (‘EEZ’) or high seas adjacent to the coast, and over the territorial sea, internal waters, and land territory. The legal basis for such zones is the right of States, under the Convention on International Civil Aviation of 1944 (Chicago Convention [1944]), to establish conditions and procedures for entry into their national airspace, ie, the airspace over their...
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