![]() ![]() About the Swedish sea territory (territorial waters) ![]() The map shows the legal limits of the Swedish continental shelf, the Swedish territorial sea and the Swedish economic zone, as well as the general composition of sediments and bedrock in the upper part of the seabed. You can read more about territorial waters and public waters below. According to the Act, the continental shelf is defined as the seabed and its underlying base within public waters and in a specific area outside the sea territory (or territorial waters), the so-called economic zone. Sweden has also implemented national legislation, the Act on the Continental Shelf, which implements both the earlier 1958 Convention on the Continental shelf and the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea. the continental shelf and the seabed, but also the water column itself (the water mass). The Convention on the Law of the Sea is a global UN convention on how the countries of the world divide up the global ocean and its resources, i.e. The continental shelf is also legally defined (not just geologically), inter alia under the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea. Thus the whole of the Swedish seabed constitutes part of the continental shelf. The shelf ends at the continental slopes off the west coast of Norway, Great Britain, Ireland and France. The image shows the continental shelf as the lighter blue fields adjacent to land. The map shows the relative water depths, by shading, of the North Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. The continental shelf is generally situated at 0-500 metres depth and ends in a continental slope. In geological terms, the continental shelf is that part of the seabed which belongs to a continental tectonic plate. Permits for extracting natural resources from the continental shelf are also issued by the government, except for sand, gravel or rock extraction within marine public water areas, in which cases permits are normally issued by SGU. Permits for laying cables and pipelines on the seabed, and for the construction of offshore wind farms are issued by the government. Permits for the exploration of the continental shelf are normally granted by the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU), but in some cases by the Swedish government (applies from 1 July 2022). The licensing requirement also applies, for example, to investigations for the construction of offshore wind turbines and to the laying of cables and pipelines on the seabed. In order to explore and extract natural resources from the continental shelf, a permit (licence) is required according to the Act (1966:314) on the Continental Shelf (Swedish Continental Shelf Act). ![]()
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