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International Law Keyed to Damrosche
North Sea Continental Shelf Cases (Federal Republic of Germany v. Denmark; Federal Republic of Germany v. Netherlands)
Facts
That the boundaries between their respective areas of the continental shelf in the North Sea and the area claimed by the Federal Republic of Germany (D), should be determined by the application of the principle of equidistance as set forth in Article 6 of the Geneva Convention of 1958 on the Continental Shelf, which by January 1, 1969 had been ratified or acceded to by 39 states but to which Germany was not a party, was the basis of Denmark’s (D) and the Netherland’s (P) contention.Because the use of the delimitation method was not merely a conventional obligation, but a rule that was part of the corpus of general international law and like other rules of general or customary international law, which was binding automatically on Germany (D), independent of any specific assent, direct or indirect, given by Germany (D), Denmark (P) and the Netherland’s (P) contended that Germany (D) was bound to accept the delimitation on an equidistance basis.
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