论大陆架界限委员会建议的性质与效力——兼评中国东海部分海域大陆架划界案

The Nature and Legally Binding about the Recommendations of CLCS——And Case Analysis of Partial Submission in Respect of the East China Sea

大陆架界限委员会的建议对沿海国划定200海里外大陆架外部界限具有重要影响,但各国对委员会建议的性质与效力存在争议。从法律性质角度看,委员会建议不仅仅是"建议性"的,而是一种国际法上的法律行为,能够引起法律后果,产生法律效力,约束提案国和《联合国海洋法公约》其他缔约国,甚至可能形成习惯法,对非缔约国产生约束力。委员会建议的提出和其效力的产生,还可能受划界争议等例外因素的影响。中国提交东海划界案,一方面在国际法上具有一定的意义,另一方面由于存在划界争议难以从委员会审议中获得有力支持,因此其效果不可高估。

The recommendations of the commission on the limits of the continental shelf （CLCS） have an important influence on coastal states to delimit their＂ outer＂ limits of continental shelf over＂ 200 nautical miles, about which countries have controversy on the nature and legally binding. From the point of legal relation, they are not only intended to advise purposes, but legal acts of international law which can produce legal consequence and have legally binding on submission states and other＂ parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and even maybe form international customs to bind non - parties. Some exceptional fzctors such as delimiting disputes between countries can impact the commission on making out recommendation and its legally binding. On the one hand, Partial submission made by Chinese government in respect of the east china sea to the CLCS would have some sense in international law ; on the other＂ hand, it is hard to get strong support from CLCS because of de- limiting disputes, so the effect of it cannot be highly estimated.