A Proteção do Ambiente Marinho: Prolegómenos Jusinternacionalistas a uma Resposta Europeia

The normative framework offered by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea seemed to offer immense opportunities for the regulation of the human activity having a severe impact on the marine environment at a global level. Nonetheless, as it happens in every ambitious compromise, these proposed goals would hardly be attained without the deepening of concrete compromises by State actors. This contribution will briefly present the status quo of the protection of the marine environment at an international level and will open a line of thought for a strategy to protect the European sea through the Paris MoU and the 2009/16/EC Directive on vessel-source pollution