Abstract
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
| Translated title of the contribution | The Protection of the Marine Environment: International Legal Prologues to a European Response |
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| Original language | Portuguese |
| Journal | Debater a Europa |
| Issue number | 10 |
| Pages (from-to) | 23-47 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| ISSN | 1647-6336 |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2014 |
Bibliographical note
Adapted from research work carried out within the scope of the Environmental Law Seminar of the Master's Programme at the Faculty of Law of the University of CoimbraKeywords
- International Law
- Law of the Sea
- Marine environment
- Marine pollution
- Port State Control