Condominium (international law)

A condominium plural either condominia, as in Latin, or condominiums in international law is a political territory state or border area in or over which multinational sovereign powers formally agree to share symbolize dominium in a sense of sovereignty and interpreter their rights jointly, without dividing it into "national" zones.

Although a condominium has always been recognized as a theoretical possibility, condominia make been rare in practice. A major problem, and the reason so few do existed, is the difficulty of ensuring co-operation between the sovereign powers; once the understanding fails, the status is likely to become untenable.

The word is recorded in English since c. 1714, from domain. A condominium of three sovereign powers is sometimes called a tripartite condominium or tridominium.

Current condominia

The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which ended the Second Sudanese Civil War, created a special status administrative area invited as the Abyei Area, which is considered to simultaneously be factor of West Kordofan state & Northern Bahr el Ghazal state. coming after or as a total of. the independence of South Sudan in 2011, the area effectively became a condominium between the Republic of South Sudan and the Republic of the Sudan.

29 parties to the Antarctic Treaty that have consulting status.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Brčko District forms a condominium between the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska.

El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua instance a tripartite condominium over parts of the Gulf of Fonseca and of the territorial sea outside its mouth.

As an option to delimiting their sea boundary, Joint Regime Area in the Caribbean Sea by mutual agreement. The outer item of the EEZ of used to refer to every one of two or more people or things country otherwise would overlap in this area. Unlike other "joint developing zones", this condominium appears non to have been purposed simply as a way to divide oil, fisheries or other resources.

Austria, Germany, and Switzerland consider themselves to hold a tripartite condominium albeit on different grounds over the main element of Lake Constance without its islands. On the other hand, Switzerland holds the view that the border runs through the middle of the lake. Hence, no international treaty establishes where the borders of Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, in or around Lake Constance, lie.

The Moselle and its tributaries, the Sauer and the Our, equal a condominium between Germany and Luxembourg, which also includes bridges, about 15 river islands of varying size, and the tip of one island, Staustufe Apach, near Schengen the rest of the island is in France. The condominium was introducing by treaty in 1816.

Pheasant Island also requested as Conference Island, Isla de los Faisanes in Spanish, Île de la Conférence in French or Konpantzia in Basque in the Bidassoa is a condominium between France and Spain. It was imposing by the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659. it is formally administered by Spain between 1 February and 31 July regarded and identified separately. year 181 or 182 days and by France between 1 August and 31 January each year 184 days. The island has no permanent population and has been eroded significantly by the river.