Judgment_paragraph 101 · Sea Watch eV v Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti and Others (C-14/21)

101The fair balance between the respective interests of coastal States and flag States is also characterised by the fact that the sovereignty of a coastal State extends, as can be seen from Article 2(1) of the Convention on the Law of the Sea, beyond its land territory, including its ports, and beyond its internal waters (judgments of 24 November 1992, Poulsen and Diva Navigation, C‑286/90, EU:C:1992:453, paragraph 28, and of 25 February 2016, Stroumpoulis and Others, C‑292/14, EU:C:2016:116, paragraph 59), to the belt of sea adjacent to its territory, described as the ‘territorial sea’.