A major move for recognition and at the European level of Greek sovereignty and Greek sovereign rights in the maritime area, under the international law of the sea, is attempting to submit to the European Commission to submit to its European Commission. Marine spatial planning pending for years.
Our country had been convicted by the European Court of Justice by a decision at the end of February for insufficient filing in 2021, and had a two -month margin. With this move before Easter, it is obvious that the government is attempting a political and substantial roller on the front of national issues, in the direction of securing Greek rights in the maritime area.
It is obvious that in this way the government “responds” to a fire that receives, mainly right -wing, for subversion to Turkey, as the Greek positions on a formal map of the European Union is an important step of registration. There were intensive consultations within the government staff all previous days, and as protothema.gr wrote in the morning, several visits were observed in the previous days by George Gerapetritis and Stavros Papastavrou at the Maximos Palace.
The map includes two basic Greek positions: the expansion of territorial waters up to 12 nm, where this is possible, while for the first time in an official EU text. The ultimate potential limits of the Greek continental shelf are defined.
“We are closing the pending past, we are defending national interests in practice,” government sources say, adding that, because of the pending pending, this does not mean that Greece does not seek good relations with Turkey. It should be noted, the reaction of the neighbor should be expected and acute.
The government says that the map of the middle line for the marketing and EEZ is applied to the map until the demarcation agreements are found with neighboring states eg. Turkey, Egypt and so on And, of course, the deposition of marine spatial planning can also act as a guide to the utilization of maritime resources, with the entry of American Chevron to equate the utilization of Greek hydrocarbons being recent.
With this given, government sources say that marine spatial planning becomes part of the European acquis.