TASK 2 (LEA6 COMPARATIVE MODELS IN POLICING)

Multiple Choice

1. Which of the UN member states below has signed UNCLOS III?

• Turkey

• Guyana

• United States

• Israel

Multiple Choice

Which is a ‘rock’ under the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)?

• Rocks are the islands that are less than 10 square miles

• Rocks are the islands that do not have any maritime zone

• Rocks are the islands which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own

• Rocks are the small islands that can sustain human habitation

Multiple Choice

What kind passage does qualify as “innocent passage”?

• Innocent passage is the passage that does not involve any criminal activity

• A vessel’s passage is considered ‘innocent’ where it is not prejudicial to the peace, good order or security of the coastal State

• Innocent passage concerns only vessels of the same nationality with the coastal State

• Innocent passage concerns only the passage of merchant vessels and not of warships

Multiple Choice

What is the commonly used English term for “the seabed and ocean floor and subsoil thereof, beyond the limits of national jurisdiction”?

• The “Zone”

• The “Area”

• The “Bed”

• The “Space”

Multiple Choice

The first effort at codifying the law of the sea, the 1930 Hague Codification Conference, focused on what issue?

• The breadth and nature of the territorial sea regime

• Exclusive fisheries

• The extent of the continental shelf

• A. Combating piracy on the high seas

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT one of the freedoms of the high seas set out in Article 87 of UNCLOS?

• Overflight

• Laying submarine cables

• Constructing artificial islands

• Testing nuclear weapons

Multiple Choice

Correctly identify the answer that lists three categories of highly migratory species listed in Annex 1 of UNCLOS.

• Halibut, dolphin, salmon

• Herring, tuna, marlin

• Swordfish, mackerel, pomfrets

• Whales, sharks, cod

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not true of the Nyon Agreement (1973)?

• It related to aerial attacks on neutral merchant vessels

• It controversially referred to “piratical” attacks even though there was no intent to plunder It controversially referred to “piratical” attacks even though there was no intent to plunder

• It applied rules of international armed conflict to an internal armed conflict (the Spanish Civil War)

• It never came into force

Multiple Choice

1. When did the third UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Conference (UNCLOS III) take place?

• Between 1948 and 1950

• A. Between 1973 and 1974

• A. Between 1973 and 1982

• 2014

Multiple Choice

1. How many nautical miles out are considered “territorial waters”?

• 6 nautical miles (11 kilometers; 7 miles) from the baseline

• 12 nautical miles (22 kilometers; 14 miles) from the baseline

• 18 nautical miles (33 kilometers; 21 miles) from the baseline

• 50 nautical miles (92 kilometers; 26 miles) from the baseline