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The Senate on Monday approved on third and final reading Senate Bill No. 2492 — a landmark bill seeking to establish Philippine Maritime Zones.
The measure secured the upper chamber’s final nod during Monday’s plenary session with 23 affirmative, zero negative votes, and zero abstentions.
Senator Francis Tolentino, chairperson of the chamber’s special panel on maritime and admiralty zones, said the measure sets the archipelagic boundaries, the country’s internal waters and exclusive economic zones over which the Philippine Government exercises sovereignty and jurisdiction.
