Abstract
In operations of public administration, and especially law enforcement agencies, a particular understanding of the definition of national territory is necessary, especially having in mind the various sovereignty differentiation of national territory into sea areas and airspace, resulting from the modern international and European Union law and which would not be contrary to Article 3 of the Constitution generally determining the meaning of the Latvian State territory. Sometimes the national territory is understood as land or water surface. But setting national borders and border treaties and the national regulatory framework of the state border concept, states include the concept of national borders within their jurisdiction spread in space – technical capabilities of land and deep-water in depth and in airspace to the space limit. The main purpose of the research was to analyse the Latvian national framework of legal subject or international and national regulatory frameworks of territory and to offer a clearer and more comprehensive definition of the national territory. The author developed the dimensional framework definition of national territory in the result of research that would be necessary in the national regulatory framework in the context of national security and not in conflict with the international regulatory framework.
Highlights
The topicality of the research relates to the concept of national territory, its more exact and clearer definition in the national regulatory framework
Research hypothesis: if Latvia as the national territory of international legal subject is defined in the national regulatory framework, it will contribute to the sovereignty of the state and safety in international relations
J.Bojars’ accentuation of the national territory spatial boundaries and their attribution to the form of segment, because the geometric meaning of the phrase "corresponding to this line vertical surface" in the definition of the concept of national borders as well as in relevant definitions of other countries is incomplete due to the fact that the earth is of spherical shape and the vertical surface of the overlapping state border lines should not be absolutely vertical
Summary
The topicality of the research relates to the concept of national territory, its more exact and clearer definition in the national regulatory framework. J.Bojars’ accentuation of the national territory spatial boundaries and their attribution to the form of segment, because the geometric meaning of the phrase "corresponding to this line vertical surface" in the definition of the concept of national borders as well as in relevant definitions of other countries is incomplete due to the fact that the earth is of spherical shape ( it is slightly stretched in the direction of the equator as a result of the centrifugal force) and the vertical surface of the overlapping state border lines should not be absolutely vertical In this case, it should be assumed that the country renounces its own significant part of the airspace, but Journal of Social Sciences No 1(7) 59 perhaps unreasonably another neighbouring state subsoil space is added. The territorial sea of the Republic of Latvia is: a) the waters of the Baltic Sea and of the Gulf of Riga of the Baltic Sea in width of 12 nautical miles (hereinafter – nm), counting from the base line (Law on the State Border of the Republic of Latvia, 2009, art.[1], part 10), if it has not been otherwise specified by international agreements; b) the waters of the Gulf of Riga of the Baltic Sea from the base line to the state border determined in accordance with the agreement of the Republic of Latvia and of the Republic of Estonia of 12 July 1996 on maritime demarcation in the Gulf of Riga, the Irbe Strait and the Baltic Sea (Law on the State Border of the Republic of Latvia, 2009, art. 1, part 9)
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