DECREE No. 77STATECOUNCIL OF THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF BULGARIAThe State Council of the Peoples Republicof Bulgaria has issued pursuant to Article 94, item 2, para (2), of theConstitution of the Peoples Republic of Bulgaria the followingDECREENo. 77onEstablishing an Exclusive Economic Zone of the Peoples Republic of Bulgaria in the Black SeaPromulgatedState Gazette No. 2/09.01.1987Article1Anexclusive economic zone is hereby established in the sea area beyond theborders of the territorial sea of the Peoples Republic of Bulgaria, contiguousthereto, for a distance of 200 nautical miles as from the starting lines formeasuring the range of the territorial sea.Article2ThePeoples Republic of Bulgaria shall exert within the exclusive economic zone:1. Sovereignrights to survey, develop, use, protect and keep the animated and non-animatednatural resources located on the sea bed, within the recesses thereof and theoverlaying waters, as well as to undertake other types of economic activitiesrelate...