Volume: 25 Issue: 8 - Kamrul Hossain - Russia’s Proposed Extended Continental

Against this background, the following short article evaluates the status and consequences of the submissions in the light of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). [...] In all, Russia’s extended continental shelf as proposed would encompass 70 percent of the Arctic Ocean beyond the coastal states’ EEZs.7 It would overlap the Danish submission by approximately 800,000 square kilometers, 200,000 more than the previous delineation.8 Extended Continental Shelf under the UNCLOS Article 76 of the UNCLOS defines the continental shelf of a coastal state as the natural pr. [...] It is complete when the CLCS considers the submission, provides recommendations for determining the limits of the continental shelf, and the limits of the shelf are redrawn by the state to reflect the Commission’s recommendations. [...] 1 Partial Revised Submission of the Russian Federation to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in Respect of the Continental Shelf in the Arctic Ocean, Executive Summary (2015) [hereinafter Revised Submission], . [...] 5 Article 8 of Annex II states the following: “In the case of disagreement by the coastal State with the recommendations of the Commission, the coastal State shall, within a reasonable time, make a revised or new submission to the Commission.” See: .