English-French translations for territorial waters

• eaux territoriales
  Donc, le Royaume-Uni ne possède plus d'eaux territoriales propres. So the UK no longer has its own territorial waters.
  N'importe quel bateau peut ainsi entrer dans nos eaux territoriales. Any ship can, therefore, enter our territorial waters.
  De plus, les zones accessibles aux chaluts s'étendent bien au-delà des eaux territoriales. In addition, the trawlable shelf extends well beyond territorial waters.
• mer territoriale
  L'exécution des mesures de contrôle appartient évidemment aux États membres, et la surveillance et le contrôle de la mer territoriale relèvent donc de la compétence de ces derniers. Of course, Member States are responsible for performing these checks, and the surveillance of and checks on territorial waters are therefore a matter of their competence.

Definition of territorial waters

• A country's inland lakes and waterways as well as the portion of its coastal oceans, seas, or other adjoining bodies of water considered to fall within the political boundaries and legal jurisdiction of that country

Related words

• territorial
• extra-territorial
• extraterritorial
• territoriality
• extraterritoriality
• Territorian
• territorially
• exterritoriality
• deterritorialization
• exterritorial