Determination and Declaration of the Maritime Zones of the Lebanese Republic

Type

Law

Number

163

Date of the text

18/08/2011

Official Gazette

published in 2011

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

18

What it provides

This law delimits Lebanon's maritime zones, namely internal waters, territorial sea, contiguous zone, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, in line with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, and fixes the baseline along the coast and the width of each zone.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 2011. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.