Territorial Waters. (1) The territorial waters of the BJE shall stretch beyond the BJE internal waters up to the Republic of the Philippines (RP) baselines southeast and southwest of mainland Mindanao. Beyond the fifteen (15) kilometers internal waters, the Central Government and the BJE shall exercise joint jurisdiction, authority and management over areas and all natural resources, living and non-living contained therein. The details of such management of the Territorial Waters shall be provided in an agreement to be entered into by the Parties.
Territorial Waters. In the statement accompanying the Egyptian ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982, the opening statement was: “Egypt determines the width of its territorial sea to 12 nautical miles, pursuant to Article 5 of the Order of 18 January 1951, as amended on February 17, 1958, in line with the provisions of Article 3 of the Convention.” The territorial waters have been defined as the waters spanning 12 nautical miles to the sea of "inland waters", this is theoretically true, but in order to conform the convention it would be more appropriate to Say that it extends towards the sea from the "baseline". Furthermore, the Decree continues to establish baseline mapping rules in a mix of regular and straight baselines, rather than article 14 of the Convention. 3.3
