This article is written by Ashutosh Singh.
Brief Introduction
The concept of Exclusive Economic Zone [‘EEZ’] was initiated by Kenya in 1972 at the Geneva session of the U.N. Committee on peaceful uses of the sea-bed and ocean floor beyond the limits of National Jurisdiction. At a later stage, the concept of EEZ was discussed widely in different sessions of the Third Conference of the Law of the Sea of 1982. Exclusive Economic Zone has developed out of earlier and more tentative claims, especially and particularly relating to fishing zones.[1] It developed as a result of developments in the negotiating processes leading to the 1982 Convention[2], and thus finally secured a place for itself in the Convention on Law of the Sea of 1982. From that date itself, it has become a generally accepted institution of the law of the sea. In Tunisia v. Libya,[3] it has been observed that 
