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Irish Internal Waters

According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a nation's internal waters include waters on the landward side of the baseline of a nation's territorial waters, except in archipelagic states. It includes waterways such as rivers and canals, and sometimes the water within small bays. In inland waters, sovereignty of the state is equal to that which it exercises on the mainland. The coastal state is free to make laws relating to its internal waters, regulate any use, and use any resource. In the absence of agreements to the contrary, foreign vessels have no right of passage within internal waters, and this lack of right to innocent passage is the key difference between internal waters and territorial waters. The "archipelagic waters" within the outermost islands of archipelagic states are treated as internal waters with the exception that innocent passage must be allowed, although the archipelagic state may designate certain sea lanes in these waters. When a foreign vessel is authorized to enter inland waters, it is subject to the laws of the coastal State, with one exception: the crew of the ship is subject to the law of the flag State. This extends to labor conditions as well as to crimes committed on board the ship, even if docked at a port. Offences committed in the harbor and the crimes committed there by the crew of a foreign vessel always fall in the jurisdiction of the coastal State. The coastal State can intervene in ship affairs when the master of the vessel requires intervention of the local authorities, when there is danger to the peace and security of the coastal State, or to enforce customs rules. None

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Date (Publication)
2017-10-18
Date (Revision)
2023-06-01
Date (Creation)
2017-10-18
Citation identifier
ie.marine.data:dataset.824
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Petroleum Affairs Division

DataEP.info@dccae.gov.ie

Originator
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
OGC Simple Feature Types
  • Polygon
SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
  • Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
Marine Institute Dataset Communities
  • Dataset
Use limitation

While every effort is made in preparing the dataset no responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of the Marine Institute for any errors, omissions or misleading information. The Marine Institute accepts no responsibility for loss or damage occasioned or claimed to have been occasioned, in part or in full, as a consequence of any person acting, or refraining from acting as a result of a matter contained in this datasets or as a consequence of using this dataset for any purpose whatsoever.

Use limitation

A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work. A CC license is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that they have created. Under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 the following is granted: Rights Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format; Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. Requirements Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Access constraints
CC%20BY%204.0
Spatial representation type
Grid
Language
English
Begin date
2009-01-01
End date
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Reference system identifier
INSPIRE RS registry / http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/3857
Distribution format
Name Version

CSV

KML

Shapefile

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://atlas.marine.ie/midata/AdministrativeUnits/Internal_Waters.csv.zip

CSV

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://atlas.marine.ie/midata/AdministrativeUnits/Internal_Waters.kml.zip

KML

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

http://www.dccae.gov.ie/en-ie/natural-resources/topics/Oil-Gas-Exploration-Production/Pages/home.aspx
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://atlas.marine.ie/midata/AdministrativeUnits/Internal_Waters.shapezip.zip

Shapefile

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Pass
Yes
Statement

Data supplied by Marine Institute.

Metadata

File identifier
ie.marine.data:dataset.824 XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-06-01
Metadata standard name

ISDI Metadata Profile

Metadata standard version

1.2

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Marine Institute

datarequests@marine.ie

Point of contact
 
 

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