BalticSea:Exclusive Economic Zone

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Exclusive Economic Zone

Layer Info
Category	Management/Governance
Editable	No
Data type	Polygons
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Description

An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a sea zone prescribed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea over which a state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind. It stretches from the baseline out to 200 nautical miles (nmi) from its coast. In colloquial usage, the term may include the continental shelf. The term does not include either the territorial sea or the continental shelf beyond the 200 nmi limit. The difference between the territorial sea and the exclusive economic zone is that the first confers full sovereignty over the waters, whereas the second is merely a "sovereign right" which refers to the coastal state's rights below the surface of the sea. The surface waters, as can be seen in the map, are international waters.

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MSP Challenge

Within the MSP Challenge Game the EEZ indicates the Planning Region of a team. Planning outside of your team's EEZ requires the team who's border is crossed to approve the plan before implementation.

Data Source

This layer is a combination of 2 sources: Flanders Marine Institute (2012) and HELCOM (2019).

Original Title

Flanders Marine Institute (2012): Intersect of IHO Sea Areas and Exclusive Economic Zones (version 2).

Exclusive Economic Zone. Available online at http://maps.helcom.fi/website/mapservice/.

Description

The layer from Flanders Marine Institute (2012) was clipped to the extend of the Baltic Sea and Kattegat, (as defined by IHO, retrieved on 22/05/2017; geometry erros and duplicates were fixed; and its geometry was simplified to implement the layer in the MSP Challenge. The layer was updated on 30/11/2020 using the new version of HELCOM from November 2019. The base layer is the one from Flanders Marine Institute (2012), the polygons were edited to match the boundaries of HELCOM (2019).

Creation date

Not specified, however a reference from the sources is given below.

• Flanders Marine Institute (2012). Intersect of IHO Sea Areas and Exclusive Economic Zones (version 2). Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. Retrieved on 22/05/2017.
• HELCOM (2019). Exclusive Economic Zone. Available online at http://maps.helcom.fi/website/mapservice/. Retrieved on 01/06/2021

Methodology

The first version of the EEZ layer for the MSP Challenge was prepared in 2016 by simplifying the Flanders Marine Institute (2012) data layer. In june 2021 the EEZ layer was updated by editing the existing layer to match the boundaries reflected on the HELCOM (2019) layer.