Every State shall adopt the laws and regulations necessary to provide that the breaking or injury by a ship flying its flag or by a person subject to its jurisdiction of a submarine cable beneath the high seas done wilfully or through culpable negligence, in such a manner as to be liable to interrupt or obstruct telegraphic or telephonic communications, and similarly the breaking or injury of a submarine pipeline or high-voltage power cable, shall be a punishable offence.

If a Party intends to establish a protected area contiguous to the frontier or to the limits of the zone of national jurisdiction of another Party, the competent authorities of the two Parties shall endeavour to consult each other with a view to reaching agreement on the measures to be taken and shall, among other things, examine the possibility of the establishment by the other Party of a corresponding protected area or the adoption by it of any other appropriate measure.

Whereas, pursuant to Article 164 (2) of the Act of Accession, the specialized fishing activities of vessels flying the flag of a present Member State in the waters falling under the sovereignty or within the jurisdiction of Spain are to be carried out in accordance with the same access and control procedures as those specified for Spanish vessels authorized to carry out their fishing acitivities in the fishing zones of the present Member States;

DESIRING by this Convention to develop the principles embodied in Resolution 2749 (XXV) of 17 December 1970 in which the General Assembly of the United Nations solemnly declared inter alia that the area of the sea-bed and ocean floor and the subsoil thereof, beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, as well as its resources, are the common heritage of mankind, the exploration and exploitation of which shall be carried out for the benefit of mankind as a whole, irrespective of the geographical location of States;

The Hong Kong SAR shall readmit, upon application by a Member State and without any formalities other than those specified in this Agreement, all persons of another jurisdiction who do not, or who no longer, fulfil the conditions in force for entry to, presence in, or residence on, the territory of the requesting Member State provided that it is proved, or may be validly assumed on the basis of prima facie evidence furnished, that such persons:

A Member State shall readmit, upon application by the Hong Kong SAR and without any formalities other than those specified in this Agreement, all persons of another jurisdiction who do not, or who no longer, fulfil the conditions in force for entry to, presence in, or residence on, the territory of the Hong Kong SAR provided that it is proved, or may be validly assumed on the basis of prima facie evidence furnished, that such persons:

Non-nuclear material, nuclear material and equipment transferred between the Parties or their respective persons or undertakings, whether directly or through a third country, shall become subject to this Agreement upon their entry into the territorial jurisdiction of the receiving Party, provided that the supplying Party has notified the receiving Party in writing of the intended transfer and the receiving Party has acknowledged in writing the receipt of this notification.

companies under German law known as "Aktiengesellschaft", "Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien", "Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung", "Versicherungsverein auf Gegenseitigkeit", "Erwerbs- und Wirtschaftsgenossenschaft", "Betriebe gewerblicher Art von juristischen Personen des öffentlichen Rechts", and other companies constituted under German law subject to German corporate tax;

where a third country imposes quantitative restrictions on the establishment of insurance undertakings of an EFTA State, or imposes restrictions on such insurance undertakings that it does not impose on Community insurance undertakings, authorisations granted by competent authorities within the Community to insurance undertakings which are direct or indirect subsidiaries of parent undertakings governed by the laws of that third country shall have validity only in the Community, except where an EFTA State decides otherwise for its own jurisdiction;

States shall take all measures necessary to ensure that activities under their jurisdiction or control are so conducted as not to cause damage by pollution to other States and their environment, and that pollution arising from incidents or activities under their jurisdiction or control does not spread beyond the areas where they exercise sovereign rights in accordance with this Convention.

Council Regulation (EC) No 2791/1999 of 16 December 1999 laying down certain control measures applicable in the area covered by the Convention on future multilateral cooperation in the north-east Atlantic fisheries(2) lays down the general rules and conditions for the application of the Scheme of control and enforcement in respect of fishing vessels fishing in areas beyond the limits of national fisheries jurisdiction in the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) Convention area (the Scheme).

when a third country imposes quantitative restrictions on the establishment of credit institutions of an EFTA State, or imposes restrictions on such credit institutions that it does not impose on Community credit institutions, authorisations granted by competent authorities within the Community to credit institutions which are direct or indirect subsidiaries of parent undertakings governed by the laws of that third country shall have validity only in the Community, except where an EFTA State decides otherwise for its own jurisdiction;

REAFFIRMING the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development which states, in its Principle 2, that States have, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction,

RECALLING that the Community and Côte d'Ivoire are signatories to the United Nations convention on the Law of the Sea and that, pursuant to this Convention, Côte d'Ivoire has established an exclusive economic zone extending up to 200 nautical miles from the base line from which its territorial waters are measured, in which it exercises its sovereign rights or jurisdiction for the purposes of exploitation, conservation and management of the resources of the above zone in accordance with international law;

The purpose of this Agreement is to establish the principles, rules and means of cooperation between the Community and Côte d'Ivoire for the rational exploitation of fishery resources and define all the conditions governing the fishing activities of vessels flying the flags of Member States of the Community, hereinafter referred to as 'Community vessels`, in the waters over which Côte d'Ivoire has sovereignty or jurisdiction for the purposes of fishing, hereinafter referred to as the 'Côte d`Ivoire fishing zone'.

Actions of governments of third countries or events beyond the territorial jurisdiction of either Party shall not be used as a basis for invoking the provisions of paragraph 8 with respect to activities or facility operations within that Party's territorial jurisdiction unless, due to such actions or events, those activities or facility operations would clearly result in a significant increase in the risk of nuclear proliferation or in a serious threat to the security of the Party invoking the provisions of paragraph 8.

HAVING REGARD to the fact that Norway has established with effect from I January 1977 an economic zone extending to 200 nautical miles off its coast, within which Norway exercises sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring, exploiting, conserving and managing the resources thereof, and that the Community has agreed that the limits of the fishing zones of its Member States (hereinafter referred to as the area of fisheries jurisdiction of the Community) shall extend up to 200 nautical miles, fishing within these limits being subject to the common fisheries policy of the Community;

CONSIDERING the pertinent provisions of the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, and in particular principle 21, according to which States have, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction,

The ACP States reaffirm the point of view they expressed throughout the negotiations on the rules of origin in respect of fishery products and consequently maintain that following the exercise of their sovereign rights over fishery resources in the waters within their national jurisdiction, including the exclusive economic zone, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, all catches effected in those waters and obligatorily landed in ports of the ACP States for processing should enjoy originating status.

Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 of 12 October 1993 establishing a control system applicable to the common fisheries policy(9) applies to all fishing activities and all associated activities carried out on the territory and in the maritime waters subject to the sovereignty or jurisdiction of Member States, including those of Community fishing vessels operating in the waters of third countries or on the high seas, without prejudice to fishery agreements concluded between the Community and third countries or international conventions to which the Community is a Party.

The North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission, at its 17th annual meeting on 17, 18, 19 and 20 November 1998, adopted two recommendations establishing a scheme of control and enforcement applicable to fishing vessels operating in areas beyond the limits of the national jurisdiction of the Contracting Parties in the Convention area (hereinafter called "the Scheme"), and a programme to promote compliance by non-Contracting Party vessels with its recommendations in order to ensure full respect for conservation and management measures adopted by the NEAFC (hereinafter called "the Programme");

Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 of 12 October 1993 establishing a control system applicable to the common fisheries policy(5) applies to all fishing activity and all related activities carried out on the territory and in the maritime waters falling within the jurisdiction or sovereignty of the Member States, including the activities of Community fishing vessels operating in the waters of third countries or on the high seas, notwithstanding the fisheries agreements concluded between the Community and third countries or international conventions to which the Community is a signatory.

Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 of 12 October 1993 establishing a control system applicable to the common fisheries policy (4) applies to all fishing activities and to all associated activities carried out within the territory and within the maritime waters subject to the sovereignty or jurisdiction of the Member States and also applies to the activities of Community fishing vessels which operate in the waters of third countries or on the high seas, without prejudice to the fisheries agreements concluded between the Community and third countries and to International Conventions to which the Community is a party;

Nothing in this Protocol nor any act adopted on the basis of this Protocol shall prejudice the rights, the present and future claims or legal views of any state relating to the law of the sea, in particular, the nature and the extent of marine areas, the delimitation of marine areas between states with opposite or adjacent coasts, freedom of navigation on the high seas, the right and the modalities of passage through straits used for international navigation and the right of innocent passage in territorial seas, as well as the nature and extent of the jurisdiction of the coastal state, the flag state and the port state.

A Contracting Party through whose area energy materials and products transit shall not, in the event of a dispute over any matter arising from that transit, interrupt or reduce, permit any entity subject to its control to interrupt or reduce, or require any entity subject to its jurisdiction to interrupt or reduce the existing flow of energy materials and products prior to the conclusion of the dispute resolution procedures set out in paragraph 7, except where this is specifically provided for in a contract or other agreement governing such transit or permitted in accordance with the conciliator's decision.

In order to respond efficiently to unintentional transboundary movements of GMOs that are likely to have a significant adverse effect on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, taking into account risks to human health, a Member State should, as soon as it becomes aware of an event under its jurisdiction resulting in a release that may lead to an unintentional transboundary movement of a GMO that is likely to have such effects, take the appropriate measures to inform the public and inform without delay the Commission, all other Member States, affected or potentially affected States, the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH) and, where appropriate, relevant international organisations.

In the waters up to 12 nautical miles from baselines under their sovereignty or jurisdiction, Member States shall be authorised from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2012 to restrict fishing to fishing vessels that traditionally fish in those waters from ports on the adjacent coast, without prejudice to the arrangements for Community fishing vessels flying the flag of other Member States under existing neighbourhood relations between Member States and the arrangements contained in Annex I, fixing for each Member State the geographical zones within the coastal bands of other Member States where fishing activities are pursued and the species concerned.

Jurisdictional scope

jurisprudence administrative, circulaire intérieure(gérance) of 13 December 1975, or

in the case of processes and activities, regardless of where their effects occur, carried out under its jurisdiction or control, within the area of its national jurisdiction or beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.

in the case of components of biological diversity, in areas within the limits of its national jurisdiction;

reaffirming that responsibility for nuclear safety rests with the state having jurisdiction over a nuclear installation;

the Parties shall ensure that they have and enforce laws addressing restrictions on competition by enterprises within their jurisdiction;

ships and aircraft believed to be engaged in dumping in areas under its jurisdiction in this matter.

The Parties, within their respective competences, shall ensure enforcement of laws addressing restrictions on competition by enterprises within their jurisdiction.

RECOGNISING that establishing global technical regulations providing high levels of protection will encourage individual countries to conclude that those Regulations will provide the protection and performance needed within their jurisdiction;

With regard to the global technical regulations developed under this Agreement, the term `apply` means the action of requiring compliance with a global technical regulation by a Contracting Party as of a certain date; in other words, the effective date of the regulation within a Contracting Party's jurisdiction.

'nuclear installation' means for each Contracting Party any land-based civil nuclear power plant under its jurisdiction including such storage, handling and treatment facilities for radioactive materials as are on the same site and are directly related to the operation of the nuclear power plant.

promote cooperation between and among States in environmental impact assessment procedures related to activities under their jurisdiction or control which are likely to have a significant adverse effect on the marine environment of other States or areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, on the basis of notification, exchange of information and consultation;

The Parties shall keep the Secretariat informed as to which of the migratory species listed in Appendices I and II they consider they are Range States; including provision of information on their flag vessels engaged outside national jurisdictional limits in taking the migratory species concerned and where possible future plans in respect of such taking.

subject to the provisions of the Treaties relating, on the one hand, to the rules on the liability of officials and other servants towards the Communities and, on the other hand, to the jurisdiction of the Court in disputes between the Communities and their officials and other servants, be immune from legal proceedings in respect of acts performed by them in their official capacity, including their words spoken or written.