ABSTRACT
Portugal has the largest Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the European Union and the 11th worldwide, with more than 1,700,000 km2, which corresponds to about 18 times its land area. Besides that, it’s predictable that Portugal come to rely on maritime zones under their jurisdiction (only concerning the rights to the seabed and subsoil and not to any rights to exploit fishing) that could more than double the current area of the EEZ.
