In a document about the Dutch plans of building an artificial island
in the North Sea to build a new airport on (a plan that, to my best
knowledge, has already been abandoned because it was far too
expensive, but was at one stage seriously discussed in the Dutch
parliament), I found this piece of text that really explains if not
all, then at least a big deal:
"Voor de toepassing van de Nederlandse bestuurswetgeving is van belang
dat de territoriale zee maar voor een deel gemeentelijk en
provinciaal is ingedeeld. De gemeentelijke en provinciale grens in de
Noordzee loopt ca. 1 km. uit de `laag laagwaterlijn spring' dan wel
tot verbindingslijnen tussen iets verder uit de kust gelegen vaste
coördinaatpunten.
Dit is bepaald door:
- de Wet van 2 november 1990, houdende regeling provincie- en
gemeentegrenzen langs de Noordzeekust van de gemeente Den Helder tot
en met de gemeente Sluis en wijziging van de Financiële
Verhoudingswet 1984, Stb. 1990, 553
- de Wet van 12 december 1985 tot gemeentelijke indeling van de
Waddenzee, Stb. 1985, 648 (Valk, van der, 1997).
Het niet ingedeeld zijn van een deel van de territoriale zee heeft
gevolgen voor de toepasbaarheid van sommige wetten. Zo worden streek-
en bestemmingsplannen alleen opgesteld in provinciaal respectievelijk
gemeentelijk ingedeeld territoir. Voor de Wet milieubeheer geldt dat
de Minister van Verkeer en Waterstaat in overeenstemming met de
Minister van Volkshuisvesting, Ruimtelijke Ordening en Milieubeheer
bevoegd gezag is voor inrichtingen die zijn of zullen zijn gelegen op
of in de territoriale zee op een plaats die niet deel uitmaakt van
een gemeente of provincie (Art. 3.3, eerste lid, Inrichtingen- en
vergunningenbesluit milieubeheer)."
Translation for the Dutch-impaired:
"For the application of Dutch administrative law, it is important to
know that the territorial sea is only partly municipally and
provincially incorporated. The municipal and provincial boundary in
the North Sea runs appr. 1 km from the `laag laagwaterlijn spring'
[what is meant here I don't know, it is a low tide watermark, but
presumably a specific one the quotes are not added by me], or up to
connecting lines between fixed co-ordinates that lie somewhat further
from the coast.
This is defined by:
- The Law of November 2, 1990, on the fixation of provincial and
municipal boundaries along the North Sea coast from the municipality
of Den Helder to and including the municipality of Sluis, and the
alteration of the Law on financial proportionality of 1984,
Staatsblad 1990, 553
- The Law of December 12, 1985, on the municipal incorporation of the
Wadden Sea, Staatsblad 1985, 648
The territorial sea partly not being incorporated has consequences
for the applicability of some laws. For example, regional and local
spatial plans are only drafted for provincial and municipal
incorporated territory, respectively. In the Environment Protection
Act it is stated that the Minister of Transport, Public Works and
Water Management, being in accordance with the Minister of Housing,
Spatial Planning and the Environment, is the competent authority for
installations that are or will be on or in the territorial sea at a
location that is not part of a municipality or a province (Art. 3.3,
1st paragraph, Decree on Arrangements and Permits, Environmental
Management)."
Source:
http://www.tnli.org/clients/onl/onl-
2.nsf/fa74af2009a44cacc12567fd003bcedd/fa021433102e2111c1256931003d9c3
6/$FILE/RLD%20133%20-%20Betsuurlijk%20juridische%20aspecten%20van%
20een%20luchthaven%20in%20zee.pdf (pp. 29-30)
Peter S.
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "m donner" <maxivan82@h...> wrote:
>
> great peter thanx
> & glad to find you awake
> & will hold here at the library for response if any
>
> this map is just what i pictured
> & it is the 6km wide part you mentioned that i think is most
interesting
> because most anomalous for being beyond the 3nm limit of innocent
passage
> tho i think the only real consequence is that foreign ships can
pass thru
> this province & town
>
> wondering most tho if you have been able to confirm whether the
shortage of
> dutch territorial seas you initially reported wasnt illusory
> m
>
> >From: Peter Smaardijk <smaardijk@y...>
> >Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> >To: BoundaryPoint <boundarypoint@y...>
> >Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Dutch provincial North sea
> >Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:53:16 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >Just to give Michael (and others) some idea of what I was
referring to
> >in msg. 5023. This is from the TDN provincial atlas of Zealand,
made up
> >of 1:50 000 topo maps (1st edition, 1997). The yellow line with the
> >black dash-dot line is the provincial boundary. The yellow lines
> >without the black are municipality boundaries. Since this map was
made,
> >Westkapelle and Domburg municipalities were added to Veere
> >municipality. Flushing remained independent.
> >
> >Note that sw of coastal marker 16-12, the municipal boundary
between
> >Flushing and Domburg/Westkapelle consists of short straight
segments,
> >running from breakwater head to breakwater head. Ne of it, it is
about
> >1 km from the coast.
> >
> >Peter S.
> >
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