According to the statement, MC No. 2016-05 dated May 16, covers mining operations, mine decommissioning, and mine rehabilitation in offshore areas within the Philippine territory and its exclusive economic zone and extended continental shelf.

Offshore mining relates to mining the beyond the coastal baseline, in the sea and the seabed. Exclusive economic zone means the water, sea bottom and subsurface measured from the baseline of the Philippine archipelago up to two hundred nautical miles (200 n.m.) offshore.
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