Maritime Boundary Agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Cuba.

The parties enacted the agreement on the maritime boundary to delimit the continental shelf and overlapping claims of jurisdiction resulting from the establishing of a 200 nautical mile fishery conservation zone off the costs of the United States in accordance with the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976. The treaty sets out the specific geographic coordinates which define the maritime boundary as depicted on the map enclosed at Annex A, clarifies the technical data which was used in determining the maritime boundary, and describes the legal effect of the maritime boundary. It underlines that neither country shall claim or exercise for any purpose sovereign rights or jurisdiction over the waters or seabed and subsoil on the other country's side of the maritime boundary. This treaty will enter into force on the date of exchange of instruments of ratification. However, the maritime boundary set forth in the treaty differs in some respects from that established by the modus vivendi of 27 April 1977. Therefore, the maritime boundary set forth in the treaty will be applied provisionally for two years from 1 January 1978.