The Grey Zone Agreement () was a provisional agreement between Norway and the Soviet Union to serve as a base to handle unresolved issues of jurisdiction and resource access in the disputed areas of the Barents Sea. The negotiations about it were concluded in 1977 and it was ratified in 1978.Kristoffer Stabrun The Grey Zone Agreement of 1978. Fishery Concerns, Security Challenges and Territorial Interests , December 2009
The Russian point of view on the history of these negotiations was published in a 2013 book by Vyacheslav Zilanov translated into Norwegian as in 2018.Gunnar Nerdrum, Review of Vjatsheslav Zilanov, Mister Russland Arktis? (Россия теряет Арктику?), March 2019,
Initially concluded for one year, in was successfully renewed each year.Thilo Neumann, Norway and Russia Agree on Maritime Boundary in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean, American Society of Internatial Law, November 10, 2010 The issue was resolved in 2010 by an agreement between Norway ad Russia.Enighet mellom Norge og Russland i delelinjeforhandlingene, 27 April, 2010
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