Submarine Cables Protection and Regulations: A Comparative Analysis and Model Framework

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 Background

1.2 Submarine Cables

1.3 Law on Submarine Cables

1.4 Identification of the Research Problem

1.5 Literature Review

1.7 The scope of the Study

Chapter 2: Submarine Cables: Key Principles and International Law of the Sea

2.1 Background

2.2 Growth, Importance, and Challenges to the Submarine Cable

Infrastructure

2.3 Laying and Protection of Submarine Cable Requirement of

Regulation on Marine Affairs

2.3.1 freedom of NAVIGATION, fishing and terrorism and submarine cables

2.4 Fundamental Principles and International Instruments on Submarine Cables

2.5 Convention for the Protection of Telegraph Cables 1884

(the Cable Convention 1884)

2.6 The League of Nations Conference for the Codification of International law 1930 at the Hague (Hague Conference)

2.7 UNCLOS I- 1958

2.8 UNCLOS II- 1960

2.9 UNCLOS III 1982 -laying and the protection of submarine

Cables

2.10 International Institutional Framework Dealing with the

Submarine Cables

2.11 Draft Convention for the Protection and Repair of Submarine

Cable Infrastructure

2.12 regulation of cables in deep sea bed in relation to the international seabed authority and proposed biodiversity agreement

2.13 Ambiguities in the International Regime on Submarine Cables

and the Way Forward

2.13.1 (highlights on the international instrument on laying of cables

2.14 Summary

Chapter 3: Challenges to the Laying and Protection of Submarine Cable in Selected Jurisdictions - A Legal & Comparative Analysis

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Basis for Identification of the Selected Jurisdictions

3.3 Legal Analysis of the Law on Submarine Cables in Selected Jurisdictions- An Overview

3.3.1 Asia

3.3.1.1 India

3.3.1.2 China

3.3.1.3 Singapore

3.3.1.4 Indonesia-Regulation of Submarine Cables 1999