1. UNCLOS United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Continental Shelf Delineation

2. Challenge Entitlement to an extended continental shelf. Submission to the Commision on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS).

3. Background UN General Assembly Resolution Letter of agreement on feasibility study with Norwegian Ministry of Foreign affairs

4. UN GA Resolution 57/141 UNEP to establish a system for data and information management to store and handle reserach data from the outer continental margin.

5. Determination of the outer edge 1002003004000 Baseline Sediments Nautical mile( M ) Oceanic crust Crystalline continental crust Foot of slope 60M 1 % of distance to foot of slope

6. Delineation principles

8. Objective Serve the needs of developing coastal States and small island developing States, and act on their request regarding the delineation of their continental shelf

9. Volume of task 60-80 coastal States Norway >10 mill US$

10. International Workshop on Continental Shelf Delineation 8 Developing States Awareness raising Data centre for the management of marine geoscientific research data

11. Implementation phases for States 1.Scanning (preliminary studies) 2.Desktop study 3.Acquisition of supplementary data 4.Interpretation and analysis 5.Compilation and Submission 6.Follow up

12. Facility Activities ”One stop data shop” Capacity building – Workshops – Hands on training – Online training – Exchange of experience

13. Facility organisation GRID Network Co-ordinating centre Other organisations Steering Committee

14. Steering committee UNEP DOALOS Funding agency GRID-Arendal Developing states

15. Expertise Database Geology/geophysics Juridical Management/marketing Technical assistance

16. Annual Budget Million US$ Core 1.8 – 1.4 Projects0.2 – 0.7