Criminal protection of fixed oil platforms located in the continental shelf area

The location of fixed oil facilities located in the continental shelf area outside the territorial jurisdiction of the coastal state creates limitations in the field of criminal protection for them. In this article, by using international documents and rules related to the cross-border implementation of criminal laws, the capacities of domestic laws in the field of criminal protection of these facilities have been examined. Based on this, we are going to investigate what criminal protection has been done in the regulations of the fixed oil platforms located in the continental shelf area?

The present research was carried out using a descriptive-analytical method.

Although the international custom has established the necessary mechanisms to apply criminal jurisdiction over these facilities in the form of the so-called Protocol to Combat Illegal Acts against the Safety of Fixed Oil Platforms in the Continental Shelf Region, an addendum to the Convention against Illegal Acts against Maritime Safety approved by Rome in 1988, but despite our country's accession to this protocol and its emphasis on criminal countermeasures against the act contained in the protocol by the member countries, no action has been taken regarding the criminalization of these acts in our criminal law and the possibility of using Its capacity in criminal protection has been taken away from this facility. Also, due to the lack of provision for these facilities in the cases of the actual jurisdiction of applying the Islamic Penal Code and the absence of any other specific law in this field, currently our criminal law in the field of protecting these facilities is facing a legal gap and only by resorting to legal generality. You can support them.