Treaty between the United States of America and the Cook Islands on friendship and delimitation of the maritime boundary between the United States of America and the Cook Islands, 11 June 1980 (entry into force: 8 September 1983; registration #: 28971; date of registration: 1 June 1992
https://www.un.org/depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/TREATIES/U…
Agreement between the Government of the Cook Islands and the Government of the Republic of Kiribati concerning the Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries between the Cook Islands and the Republic of Kiribati, 29 August 2012 (entry into force:17 January 2014; registration #: 51976; registration date: 13 June 2014
https://www.un.org/depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/DEPOSIT/co…
Agreement between the Government of the Cook Islands and the Government of Niue concerning the Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries between the Cook Islands and Niue, 29 August 2012 (entry into force: 6 May 2013; registration #: 1370; registration date: 26 July 2013
https://www.un.org/depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/DEPOSIT/co…
Agreement on Maritime Delimitation between the Government of the Cook Islands and the Government of the French Republic, 3 August 1990 (entry into force: 3 August 1990; registration #: 27947; registration date: 26 February 1991
https://www.un.org/depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/TREATIES/C…
Agreement between the Government of the Cook Islands and the Government of New Zealand concerning the Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries between the Cook Islands and Tokelau, 4 August 2010 (entry into force: 12 November 2012; registration #: 50545 ; date of registration: 21 March 2013
https://www.un.org/depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/DEPOSIT/co…
Codicil modifying the Agreement of 19 January 1983 between the Government of the French Republic and the Government of Fiji relating to the delimitation of their economic zone, 8 November 1990 (entry into force: 8 November 1990; registration #: 27963; registration date: 7 March 1991
Codicil modifying the Agreement of 19 January 1983 between the Government of the French Republic and the Government of Fiji relating to the delimitation of their economic zone, 8 November 1990 (entry into force: 8 November 1990; registration #: 27963; registration date: 7 March 1991
Maritime boundary treaty delimitation signed but not yet entered into force.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands shares four Maritime Boundary Treaties with its neighboring States. The following describes each treaty and its progress.
Gazetted and deposited to UN DOALOS
Treaty between the Republic of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia
Vanuatu shares four Maritime Boundary Treaties with its Pacific neighbouring States. The following describes each treaty and its progress.
Gazetted and Entered into Force
Treaty between Vanuatu and Solomon Islands
Treaty Between the Republic of Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands Concerning their Maritime Boundaries of 7 October 2016
Tuvalu shares three Maritime Boundary Treaties with its neighbouring States. The following describes each treaty and its progress.
Gazetted and Entered into Force
Tonga shares five Maritime Boundaries with its neighboring States. The following describes each boundary and progress towards agreement.
Gazetted and Entered into Force
Treaty between Tonga and France (Wallis and Futuna)
Convention between the Government of the French Republic (Wallis and Futuna) and the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga on the delimitation of economic zones, 11 January 1980 (entry into force: 11 January 1980; registration #: 18960; registration date: 27 June 1980
Australia shares three Maritime Boundary Treaties with its Pacific neighbouring States. The following describes each treaty and its progress.
Gazetted and Entered into Force
Samoa shares Maritime Boundaries with five of its neighboring States. Samoa has not officially signed or agreed upon any of those boundaries. The following describes each boundary.
Provisional
Boundary between Samoa and Tonga
Boundary between Samoa and France (Wallis and Futuna)
Boundary between Samoa and United States of America (American Samoa)
Boundary between Samoa and New Zealand (Tokelau)
The Marine Zones (Declaration) Act 2011 repeals the Marine Zones (Declaration) Act 1983. It states that the exclusive economic zone comprises those waters beyond the territorial sea of Kiribati, but within a distance of two hundred (200) nautical miles from the baseline of Kiribati, shall be the exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Kiribati.
The Pacific Network for Environmental Assessment (PNEA) Portal is an initiative of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to support government officials from Pacific Island countries and territories who work with environmental impact assessment (EIA), strategic environmental assessment (SEA) as well as Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS).
The portal complements SPREP’s current capacity building program for EIA and SEA - including the recently launched Regional EIA Guidelines, the Coastal Tourism EIA guidelines, and SEA guidelines.
The Maritime Zones Act 2013 states that the baseline of the territorial sea of Niue is measured from the low-water mark along the coast of Niue, or where there is a coral reef along any part of the coast of Niue, the low-water mark along the outer edge of the coral reef.
The territorial sea comprises those areas of the sea having, as their inner limits, the baseline and, as their outer limits, a line measured seaward from that baseline, every point of which is distant 12 nautical miles from the nearest point of the baseline.
The Maritime Zones Act 2013 states that the exclusive economic zone of Niue comprises those areas of the sea, seabed and subsoil that are beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea having as their outer limits a line measured seaward from the baseline, every point of which line is not more than 200 nautical miles from the nearest point of the baseline.
Niue's Territorial Sea Baseline was derived using the IKONOS satellite imagery taken in 2004 and Horizontal Datum used was the World Geodetic Datum 1984 (WGS 84) as stipulated under Section 12 of the Maritime Zones Act 2013.
The Maritime Zones Act 2013 states that the contiguous zone comprises those areas of the sea that are beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea, having as their outer limits a line measured seaward from the baseline, every point of which is distant 24 nautical miles from the nearest point of the baseline.
Following captures noted announcement on tarriff adjustments effective 1st March 2019.
The graph below shows how Tonga Power Limited (TPL) was holding its tariff since 2017 to February 2019, whilst diesel fluctuates over the same period.
Source: Tonga Power Limited