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I think the owner of the continental shelf (the bottom of the sea under the EEZ), has the right to deny the installation of cables or pipelines. That's how I read paragraph 3 of article 79 of UNCLOS.

See here https://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unc...



They have the right to limit it in their territorial sea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters#Territorial...) but outside of that, their complaints are only valid if the pipelines would affect the state's ability to use its EEZ.


Which they might, if the cable happens to sit right on top of a drilling spot.

The likelihood of that seems astronomically slim, but it's still a possibility.


Isn't the entire Mediteranean Sea on the continental shelf? I don't think it's comparable to the shelf off the Atlantic and Pacific.




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