- Antarctic Exclusive Economic Zone became Antarctic 200NM zone beyond the coastline

- Adjusted boundaries after a check of the coordinates in the corresponding treaties: 
	- Treaty	Italy - Croatia
	- Treaty	Vietnam - China
	- Treaty	Alaska - Russia

- Adjusted boundaries because of new treaties
	- Treaty	Romania - Ukraine

- Adjusted boundaries based on available shapefiles (http://www.hidrografico.pt/dowload-gratuito.php, consulted on 09/12/2008)
	- 200 NM	Portugal - Atlantic Ocean
	- 200 NM	Azores - Atlantic Ocean
	- 200 NM	Madeira - Atlantic Ocean
	- Median Line	Portugal - Marocco
	- Median Line	Portugal - Spain
	- Median Line	Canary Islands - Madeira
	- Median Line	Morocco - Madeira

- Adjusted terminology of boundaries due to disputes between two countries
	- Turkey - Cyprus
	- Turkey - Greece

- The polygons have been adapted to these new boundary lines and they reach now to a Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database  (GSHHS), made available on the NOAA website http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html (version 1.3 has been used)