Inland waters. The inland waters target will measure progress towards securing Aboriginal and Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Islander interests in water bodies inland from the coastal zone under state and territory water rights regimes. This will include data development to identify a nationally consistent measure for inland waters encompassing, for example, water licenses, water rights and water allocation plans. Reporting and measuring progress on targets The reporting on targets will show progress to close the gap, relative to non-Indigenous Australians. National trajectories for each numeric target will be published on the Closing the Gap website on commencement of this Agreement and subsequently on the Productivity Commission Dashboard following its development. These will show the expected rate of progress and help inform whether parties are on track to meet the targets. Available baseline data for each state and territory will be published on the Closing the Gap website on commencement of this Agreement and subsequently on the Productivity Commission Dashboard following its development to enable monitoring of each jurisdiction’s progress and contribution towards achievement of targets under this Agreement. The Productivity Commission will also publish baseline data for any new target agreed under this Agreement. Government Parties commit to sharing quantitative and qualitative data, other than that which is precluded by privacy requirements or commercial-in-confidence, to meet the reporting requirements of this Agreement and any associated reviews, annual priority setting or policy adjustments, to be properly informed by evidence. Parties commit to undertaking actions if a target is not on track to be achieved or if one of the Productivity Commission’s three-yearly reviews indicates (Section 9C) that achievement of the target is not on track. Actions to get the target back on track will be included in Jurisdictional Implementation Plans.
Inland waters. The inland waters target will measure progress towards securing Aboriginal and Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Islander interests in water bodies inland from the coastal zone under state and territory water rights regimes. This will include data development to identify a nationally consistent measure for inland waters encompassing, for example, water licenses, water rights and water allocation plans.
Inland waters. Article 8 of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea stated in paragraph 1 “water that is confined beyond the State's baseline towards the shore is part of inland waters.” Article 4 of the 1951 decree, as amended in 1958, stated: The inland waters of the Republic include: (A) Water bays on the coasts of the Arab Republic of Egypt; (B) Water above any low elevations located 12 nautical miles from the mainland or any Egyptian island, as well as water between these lowlands and the mainland; (c) Water between the mainland and any Egyptian island not more than 12 nautical miles from the mainland; (D) Water between the Egyptian islands at distance between each other does not exceed 12 nautical miles. Obviously, Egypt chose the straight baseline system, and in fact Egypt was the second Mediterranean country after Yugoslavia to implement straight baselines (Letalik, 1988) because of the nature of the coastline and the presence of bays, and high tides. However, by examining the 1951 decree, the following were found to be incompatible with UNCLOS and may affect the baselines created: (A) The decree defines the bays as "any bay, entrance or arm of the sea". In accordance with Article 10 of the Convention, the Gulf is considered a Gulf only when a certain ratio Between width and water within it is specified. Article 10/2 of UNCLOS,1982 defines the Gulf as a clearly defined dent which, by analogy to the Width of its entrance, in such a way it contains water confined to the land, and constitutes more than one curve"shall not be considered as a bay unless it is an area equal to half a circle with a diameter drawn through or beyond the entrance of that dent." (UN, 1983) (B) Another erroneous definition is the definition of the Island; “Island means any island, coral reef, rock or any permanent man-made structure not submerged at low tide”. The island is defined in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in Article 121, “its plots of land are naturally formed, surrounded by water, and above water at high tide”. Furthermore, in Article 60, paragraph 8, "artificial islands, installations and structures do not have the status of islands." (C) The decree equates the lowlands with the islands 12 nautical miles from the mainland. Although Article 13 provided equitably in Paragraph 1 of UNCLOS states that “the low water line at that altitude can be used as a baseline for the measurement of the territorial sea width”; Article 7 provided equitably in P...
