3The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, signed in Montego Bay (Jamaica) on 10 December 1982, which entered into force on 16 November 1994, was ratified by the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 28 June 1996 and by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 25 July 1997 and was approved on behalf of the European Community by Council Decision 98/392/EC of 23 March 1998 (JO 1998 L 179, p. 1, ‘the Convention on the Law of the Sea’).
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