The concept of state management of maritime areas.

(Baonghean.vn) - Question 43. What is the concept of state management of maritime areas?

Reply:State management is a form of social management that involves the power of the state to regulate social relations and human behavior. State management is the organized, systematic, and legal intervention aimed at effectively and efficiently regulating social relations according to the will of the state.

In the context of current economic, social, and scientific and technological development, the relationships that need to be regulated by state law are diverse, rich, and complex, occurring within the maritime areas and continental shelf under the sovereignty, sovereign rights, and jurisdiction of coastal states. This inevitably requires strengthening state management, that is, the organized influence and regulation by state power over socio-economic processes and legal order, in order to fulfill the functions and tasks of the state in the development of the maritime economy, protecting and enforcing sovereignty, sovereign rights, jurisdiction, and national interests at sea.

In state management of the sea, there are two important aspects:

- Organized impact and regulation: Organization is the establishment of social relationships between people and groups to carry out a social process. Organization is the most important factor in implementing state management of maritime areas. Regulation is the legal provision expressed through management regulations, rules, standards, etc., aimed at creating compatibility between the subject and object of management, and creating balance and equilibrium in various aspects of human activities.

- The impact is of the nature of state power, that is, impact through law and according to the principle of the rule of law.

State power is manifested in the state management of maritime areas through the strict enforcement of laws, and when making management and operational decisions, authorities must base them on and comply with the law.

Clearly, in the context of state management of the sea, the Law of the Sea plays an indispensable role as a tool for regulating the types of social relations that arise and exist in the marine environment.

According to the Q&A on Vietnam's Law of the Sea

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