HC Deb 28 June 1978 vol 952 c555W
24. Mr. Knox

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is Her Majesty's Government's policy for the definition of the edge of the Continental Shelf; and how this differs from the new formula put forward by the USSR at the Conference on the Law of the Sea.

Mr. Luard

At the conference the United Kingdom supports the formula based on a line 60 miles from the foot of the continental slope or were the sediment thickness is 1 per cent. of the distance from the foot of the slope. The USSR has proposed a line 300 miles from territorial sea baselines. This proposal is unacceptable to Her Majesty's Government.