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The sovereignty of the Republic of Croatia at sea extends to the internal sea waters and the territorial sea of ​​the Republic of Croatia, to the airspace above them and to the seabed and subsoil of these sea areas (Article 6, paragraph 1) of the Maritime Code (Official Gazette 181). / 04, 76/07, 146/08, 61/11 and 56/13)). Legal relations in the sea and submarine areas of the Republic of Croatia are determined by Art. 1st paragraph (1) of the Maritime Code. The internal sea waters of the Republic of Croatia are defined in Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Maritime Code. They include ports and bays on the coast of the mainland and islands, parts of the sea between the line of low water on the coast of the mainland and the flat baseline for measuring the width of the territorial sea referred to in Art. 18 para. (2) items 2) and 3) of the Maritime Code. A bay is considered to be a clearly defined bay indented into the mainland, the sea surface of which is equal to or greater than the area of ​​a semicircle whose length of diameter is equal to the length of the straight line closing the entrance to the bay. The sea surface of the bay is measured from the low water line along the shore of the bay and the straight line that closes the entrance to the bay (Article 7, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Maritime Code). The territorial sea of ​​the Republic of Croatia is a sea belt 12 nautical miles wide, counting from the baseline in the direction of the economic zone (Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Maritime Code). The external border of the territorial sea of ​​the Republic of Croatia is a line at which each point is 12 nautical miles from the nearest point of the baseline (Article 19 of the Maritime Code). The baseline consists of: low water lines bays, straight lines connecting the following points on the mainland coast and on the coast of the island: The baseline is determined by the strokes: a) Cape Zarubača - southeastern cape of the island of Mrkan - southern cape of the island of Sv. Andrija - cape Gruj (island of Mljet), b) cape Korizmeni (island of Mljet) - island of Glavat - cape Struga (island of Lastovo) - cape of the Great Sea (island of Lastovo) - southwestern cape of the island of Kopište - cape Velo danče (island of Korčula) - cape Proizd - southwest cape of the island of Vodnjak - cape Rat (island of Drvenik mali) - cliff Mulo - cliff Blitvenica - island Purara - island Balun - island Mrtovac - island Garmenjak veli - a point on Dugi otok with coordinates 43° 53 12" north latitude and 15° 10 00" east longitude, c) cape Veli rat (Dugi otok) - cliff Masarine - cape Margarina (island Susak) - shoal Albanež - island Grunj - cliff Sv. Ivan on the high seas - Mramori shoal - Altiež island - Cape Kastanjija (Article 18, paragraph (2) of the Maritime Code). The baselines are drawn in the nautical chart "Adriatic Sea", issued by the Croatian Hydrographic Institute. In its economic zone, the Republic of Croatia exercises sovereign rights for the purpose of exploration and exploitation, conservation and management of living and non-living natural resources, and in cooperation with neighbouring countries implements measures for the protection and preservation of living marine resources (Article 33, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Maritime Code). In the continental shelf, the Republic of Croatia exercises sovereign rights for the purpose of its exploration and exploitation of natural resources, which means ore and other inanimate resources of the seabed and its subsoil and sea creatures that are in the stage of hunting, immobile on or below the seabed, or they can move only in constant physical contact with the seabed or only in the sea underground (Art. 43 para. (1) and (2) of the Maritime Code). The continental shelf of the Republic of Croatia includes the seabed and the subsoil outside the outer border of the territorial sea of ​​the Republic of Croatia in the open sea direction to the borders of the continental shelf with neighbouring countries. The borders of the continental shelf of the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Italy were determined by the Agreement between the SFRY and the Italian Republic on the delimitation of the continental shelf from 1968. Until an agreement is reached on the delimitation of the continental shelf with Montenegro, i.e. with Serbia and Montenegro, the Republic of Croatia will enjoy sovereign rights in that zone up to the middle line that continues to the outer border of the territorial sea in the Bay of Kotor in the open sea (Article 42 of the Maritime Code). The Decision on the Extension of the Jurisdiction of the Republic of Croatia in the Adriatic Sea (OG 157/03, 77/04, 138/06 and 31/08) stipulates in item 5 that the Protected Ecological-Fishing Zone (ZERP) of the Republic of Croatia covers the sea area from the outer boundaries of the territorial sea in the direction of the open sea to its external border permitted by general international law. The external borders of the protected ecological-fishing zone of the Republic of Croatia will be determined by international delimitation agreements with countries whose shores lie opposite or sideways in relation to the Croatian coast. Until the conclusion of international delimitation agreements (Item 6 of the Decision on Extending the Jurisdiction of the Republic of Croatia in the Adriatic Sea), the external border of the protected ecological-fishing zone of the Republic of Croatia temporarily follows the demarcation line established by the 1968 Agreement between the SFRY and the Italian Republic. in the case of lateral demarcation, the line that follows the direction and continues to the temporary demarcation line of territorial seas as determined by the Protocol on the Provisional Regime along the southern border between the Republic of Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro from 2001. Marine waters (for the purposes of Directive 2008/56/EC) include (a) inland waters, the territorial sea of ​​the Republic of Croatia and their seabed and subsoil, as well as marine areas, including their seabed and subsoil, in which the Republic of Croatia exercises sovereign rights, i.e. jurisdiction in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Official Gazette - International Treaties, Nos. 11/95 and 9/2000) and special laws of the Republic of Croatia; (b) coastal waters as defined by a special regulation on water management, their seabed and subsoil, to the extent that specific aspects of the ecological status of the marine environment are not already covered by that regulation or other laws of the Republic of Croatia (Article 5 of the Regulation on drafting and implementing documents Strategies for the management of the marine environment and the coastal zone (Official Gazette 112/2014). The total length of the border of the territorial sea of ​​the Republic of Croatia, including the existing lateral borders is 511.9 nautical miles (948.08 kilometers). Length of the borders of the Republic of Croatia with neighbouring countries at sea: - with the Republic of Slovenia, until the end of the ongoing arbitration proceedings, there is a border of the territorial sea 8.2 nautical miles long (15.19 kilometers); - the border with the Italian Republic is 14.1 nautical miles (26.14 kilometers) divided by the territorial sea and the 356.8 nautical miles (660.73 kilometers) border is divided by the continental shelf between the two coastal states; - there is a territorial sea border of 8.1 nautical miles (15.04 kilometers) with Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has been temporarily applied since 1999; - since 2002, a temporary border of 14.0 nautical miles (25.98 kilometers) has been established with Montenegro, which divides the territorial seas of the two countries, and another 39.5 nautical miles (73.24 kilometers) of the temporary southern lateral border of the Croatian Protected ecologically fishing belt.

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