The Convention also established the International Seabed Authority, with responsibility for the regulation of seabed mining beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, that is beyond the limits of the territorial sea, the contiguous zone and the continental shelf.
32.
The term " territorial waters " is also sometimes used informally to refer to any area of water over which a state has jurisdiction, including internal waters, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone and potentially the continental shelf.
33.
The Arab states disputed Israel's right of passage through the Straits, noting they had not signed the Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone specifically because of article 16 ( 4 ) which provided Israel with that right.
34.
The provision was adopted almost verbatim at UNCLOS I into Article 16 ( 4 ) of the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, but not without significant debate as to how the merits judgment should be interpreted with respect to warships.
35.
After attempts to force the Aceng to leave the Ashmore Islands contiguous zone were abandoned, the passengers of the Aceng were transferred to the warship MV Tampa, the Norwegian cargo ship at the centre of the diplomatic crisis which triggered the Australian Government's policy of off-shore detention.
36.
A 1982 U . N . treaty, which was ratified by most members of the United Nations but not by the United States, permits nations to claim territorial waters up to 12 nautical miles from shore, and a contiguous zone up to 24 nautical miles from shore.
37.
The United Nations ( to which China was not yet a member ) had just held its first Conference on the Law of the Sea in Switzerland in 1956, and the resulting treaties, including the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, were signed in 1958.
38.
Dumping restrictions were enacted for both U . S . flag vessels and materials transported from a location outside the U . S . With respect to the latter category, dumping was prohibited within the U . S . territorial sea and the U . S . contiguous zone.
39.
In addition to RCRA, hazardous waste discharges from cruise ships are subject to Section 311 of the Clean Water Act, which prohibits the discharge of hazardous substances in harmful quantities into or upon the navigable waters of the United States, adjoining shorelines, or into or upon the waters of the contiguous zone.
40.
In the decision, France kept the 12 nautical mile ( NM ) ( 22.2 km ) territorial sea surrounding the islands and was given an additional 12 NM ( 22.2 km ) contiguous zone as well as a 10.5 NM ( 19.4 km ) wide corridor stretching 200 NM ( 370 km ) south.
