🔹️The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), adopted in Montego Bay, sought to regulate the legal regime of the seas by drawing upon customary legal sources.
🔹️One of the disputes rooted in “shared hydrocarbon resources” occurred in the maritime zone of the Aegean Sea—a case between Greece and Turkey brought before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which is examined in this presentation.
🔹️Ultimately, while the ICJ did not establish jurisdiction to adjudicate the case, during its jurisdictional review it refrained from issuing provisional measures to halt Turkey’s seismic exploration activities in the Aegean Sea. This contributed to the formation of customary practice suggesting that “purely exploratory operations, without the installation of permanent equipment, do not require prior consent or notification of the adjacent state with a shared maritime boundary in the disputed area.”
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