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EuroBoundariesinstitutional context

Gerhard Muggenhuber BEV-Internat.Relations, Austria,

geomugg@gmx.at

www.bev.gv.at

EuroBoundaries Workshop, Vienna, June 2005Gerhard MUGGENHUBER

Institutions focusing on international boundaries

The Anthropogeographic Society of Barcelona - Crossborder Studies Centre Association for Borderlands Studies Association of European Border Regions Borderpol serving the international community of border security professionals. Centre for Border Studies, University of Glamorgan, Wales Centre for Cross-Border Studies, Armagh, Northern Ireland Centre for International Borders Research, Queen's University, Belfast Center for Regional and Transboundary Studies, Volgograd State University Peipsi Centre for Transboundary Cooperation, Tartu, Estonia Committee on Geodetic Aspects of the Law of the Sea (GALOS) Council on Ocean Law Danish Institute of Border Region Studies, Aabenraa The European Borders Group based at the University of Surrey, UK Exlinea: Reconfiguring the External Boundaries of Europe –

Policies, Practices, Perceptions International Boundary Consultants International Court of Justice International Seabed Authority International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS) Nijmegen Centre for Border Research UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea UN FAO Fisheries Department

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UN-bodies

UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea UN FAO - Fisheries Department UN Cartographic Section UN - International and Administrative Boundaries       - GUIDELINES

   - INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARIES DATASET

UN Treaty Collection:Article 102 of the UN-Charter, "Every treaty and every

international agreement entered into by any Member of the UN after the present Charter comes into force shall as soon as possible be registered with the Secretariat and published by it".

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties*

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Institutions focusing on international boundaries Boundary and Sovereignty Links

International Court of Justice - The Hague, NL• Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea (Romania v. Ukraine)

Permanent Court of Arbitration - The Hague, NL• Boundary Commissions

International Seabed Authority  - Kingston, Jamaica

US Dep. of State: • Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of Global

Issues, • Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), National Geospatial-

Intelligence Agency (NGA).

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Institutions focusing on international boundaries Europe:

International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU, UK, University of Durham 

Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS, NL) 

The Geopolitics and International Boundaries Research Centre

(GRC) (University of London, UK)

Nijmegen Centre for Border Research (NCBR, NL)

Centre for International Borders Research (CIBR, Queen’s University, Belfast, NORTHERN IRELAND)

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EuroBoundaries Institutional context

The UK-based International Boundaries Research Unit works since 1989 to enhance the resources available for the peaceful resolution of problems associated with international boundaries on land and at sea, including their delimitation, demarcation and management.

www-ibru.dur.ac.uk/resources/links.html

In the dynamics of the globalisation geographical borders are more and more considered as challenges for further integration. At the same time however, borders still are considered to be barriers in many ways. Borders represent important values of identity of people and demarcate the sovereignty of governments. Because of this tension between borders as 'meeting-places' and borders as 'cut-off lines' borders have become maybe more important then ever before in the European society.

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Boundary - related organizations in Europe

dedicated to global border security and safety. H-1021 Budapest, Labanc Utca 57, Room 206.

THE EUROPEAN BORDERS GROUP to investigate the impact of boundaries, in various senses

Currently under Austrian Presidency

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Boundary - related studies / conferences

MA International Boundary Studies

MA in International Boundary Studies for £7,300 / year at the Geopolitics & International Boundaries Research Centre (GRC):

• Traditional European and non-European concepts of sovereignty and territorial control

• The uneasy acceptance of a European construct: the sacro-sanctity of international boundaries in the developing world

• International land boundaries and state territory in international law

• Land boundary disputes in international law • Ocean boundary-making

Border management in an insecure worldUniversity of Durham, 5-7 April 2006

EuroGeographics ………..

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Reference information (INSPIRE)

Administrative units

Transport

Hydrography

Elevation

Cadastral parcels

Ortho-imagery

Protected sites (out of scope)

Land cover (out of scope)

Referencing and coordinate systems

Coordinate reference systems CRS

Geographical grid systems

Geographical Names

Addresses

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GNSS

EuroGeoNames

EuroRoadS

ImplementationEULIS

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Country A Country B

Boundary Treatydefinition of the boundary

Boundary Commission boundary documents (description, co-ordinates, plan)

technical (geodetic) groups

National responsibilitynational co-ordinates

for the boundary

National responsibilitynational co-ordinates

for the boundary

National geodetic database,topographic maps, cadastre,

other users

Preparation for ETRS89

Similar situation

Preparation for ETRS89

Common use of the agreed data for maps, cadastre

Boundary Commission,common decisions about details, e.g. co-ordinates,agreed ETRS89

co-ordinates

International law / multi-, bi-lateral treaties

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Customers viewApplications and Interconnection

Census and Geodata provide most important source

• Systems are cheap to be maintained• Data from Public registers are cheap and easy to acquire

Access to geo-coded information is a necessity of Access to geo-coded information is a necessity of an virtual infrastructure in our business world an virtual infrastructure in our business world

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F - CHBorder through Hotel

F – A (Belgium): boundary marker before 1815

D - DenmarkD - Denmark DK - SWEDK - SWE

A – FL - CHA – FL - CH

A – SLO - HA – SLO - H

A – SK - HA – SK - H A – SLO - IA – SLO - I

P – SK - UAP – SK - UA

H – RO - UAH – RO - UA

Peter Hering's  Border Pictures

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Thank you !

Gerhard Muggenhuber BEV-Internat.Relations, Austria,

geomugg@gmx.at

www.bev.gv.at