Division Economic territory

The economic territory includes the following items:

1. (a)

   the area (geographic territory) under the effective administration and economic control of a single government;

2. (b)

   any free zones, including bonded warehouses and factories under customs control;

3. (c)

   the national air-space, territorial waters and the continental shelf lying in international waters, over which the country enjoys exclusive rights;

4. (d)

   territorial enclaves, these being geographic territories situated in the rest of the world and used, under international treaties or agreements between states, by general government agencies of the country (such as embassies, consulates, military bases, scientific bases, etc.);

5. (e)

   deposits of oil, natural gas, etc. in international waters outside the continental shelf of the country, worked by units resident in the territory as defined in points (a) to (d).

The economic territory excludes the following items:

• extraterritorial enclaves (i.e. the parts of the country’s own geographic territory used by general government agencies of other countries, by the institutions and bodies of the European Union or by international organisations under international treaties or agreements between States).