2.2.2. Contiguous Zone

♤ The Convention also grants a coastal State the right to establish a contiguous zone not extending beyond 24 nautical miles from the baselines.

♤ Within its contiguous zone, the coastal State may exercise the control necessary to prevent and punish infringement of customs, fiscal, immigration or sanitary laws and regulations that have occurred within its territory or territorial waters and to control, in specified circumstances, the trafficking of archaeological and historical objects.