ABSTRACT
The fundamental procedural principle of general application forming part of the International Court's doctrine is the principle of effecting maritime boundary delimitation by agreement. As the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the 1969 cases stated, the application of equitable principles must occur "in accordance with the ideas which have always underlain the development of the legal regime of the continental shelf". Similarly as the principle of natural prolongation implies consideration of geological and geomorphological factors, the principle of distance gives pertinence in normal situations to the equitable method of the median/equidistance line. In addition to geological and geomorphological features, single maritime boundary and equidistance, there exists the whole variety of other equitable criteria, techniques and methods pertinent to the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the continental shelf (CS) that may be relevant to delimitation depending upon the circumstances of a particular case.
