ABSTRACT

Convention on the High Seas of 29 April 1958. This treaty does not specifically address offshore platforms and only speaks of cables and pipelines on the marine seabed. Article 26 states “All States shall be entitled to lay submarine cables and pipelines on the bed of the high seas”. This seems to be somehow creating the right to establish installations on the high seas but provides nothing concrete on infrastructure and maritime constructions that would be considered as offshore platforms.