Maritime frontiers of the Republic of Croatia

Main topics: Municipal legislation, bilateral treaties on delimitation and participation in multilateral conventions on the law of the sea, by the former Yugoslav Federation and other coastal States in the Adriatic at the ''critical date''. Developments in Croatia and other coastal states after 1991. The principle of uti possidetis in its various aspects as a basis to the settlement of territorial disputes on land and maritime areas. The author emphasizes the problems and claims raised in maritime delimitation of Croatia with Slovenia, Italy, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)