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6. Underwater cultural heritage may not be commercially exploited.
7. Signatories have the exclusive right to regulate and authorize activ- ities directed at underwater cultural heritage in their territorial sea
and contiguous zone, and may enforce this right.
8. On matters in a signatory’s exclusive economic zone (out to 200 nau-
tical miles), however, the draft convention does not provide any new
enforcement authority.
9. Several provisions make it clear that the convention must be inter-
preted consistent with international law, including the UN Conven-
tion on the Law of the Sea.
10. Signatories must require their nationals to report any discovery of
underwater cultural heritage (even if discovered in another signa- tory’s waters), and must prohibit them from engaging in activities directed at the heritage without a proper permit. They may enforce those regulations against foreign-flag nationals and vessels, at least in the territorial sea and contiguous zone. For further information on the Convention see Brown, 1996; Carducci, 2002; Dromgoole, 1999; Fletcher-Tomenius and Williams, 1999; O’Keefe, 1999; Prott, 2003; Prott et al., 2000; Strati, 1999; and UNESCO, 1995.