International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
The International Tribunal for a Law of a Sea ITLOS is an Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. It was introducing by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, signed at Montego Bay, Jamaica, on 10 December 1982. The Convention entered into force on 16 November 1994, as well as established an international model for law over any ocean space, its uses in addition to resources. The ITLOS is one of four dispute resolution mechanisms pointed in Article 287 of the UNCLOS.
The Tribunal is based in Hamburg, Germany. The Convention also defining the International Seabed Authority, with responsibility for the regulation of seabed mining beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, that is beyond the limits of the territorial sea, the contiguous zone and the continental shelf. There are currently 168 signatories, 167 states plus the European Union. As of 2021, holdouts identified the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran.