The Neptun Deep perimeter cannot be automatically defended by NATO in the event of an aggression, for an essential reason and often ignored in public discourse: it is not located on Romania's national territory, as defined by the Constitution and Law no. 350/2001, but in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Romania in the Black Sea, a space with a special legal regime, where the Romanian state has sovereign economic rights, but not full sovereignty. This legal distinction, apparently technical,