International Liability Regime for Pollution of Marine Environment from Ships
https://doi.org/10.24833/0869-0049-2022-4-68-76
Abstract
INTRODUCTION. The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea imposes obligations on states to protect and preserve the marine environment. They are responsible under international law. In order to ensure prompt and adequate compensation for all damage caused by marine pollution, states shall cooperate in implementing existing international law concerning liability and in developing procedures for adequate compensation, such as liability insurance or compensation funds
MATERIALS AND METHODS. In the article the author analyzes international treaties that form the basis of the regime of international legal liability for marine pollution from ships, such as the Oil Pollution Damage Convention 1969, the International Convention on Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by Sea 1996, the International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Fuel Pollution Damage 2001. The research is based on general scientific methods of knowledge (system and structural approaches, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction), as well as special methods used in legal science (comparative legal, historical legal and formal dogmatic).
RESEARCH RESULTS. Based on the analysis carried out, the author came to the following research results: Together the three conventions - the CSA, the COW and the Bunker Convention - form a single regime of liability for marine pollution, the source of which are ships, and strive for identity of all definitions in order to avoid inconsistencies in their interpretation.
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS. In the course of the analysis, the author referred to the debatable points expressed in the scientific literature concerning the completeness of the legal regulation of liability for marine pollution from ships. After which the author made a conclusion that, although a significant amount of marine pollution accounts for pollution from ships, the existing international legal mechanisms for regulating liability issues in this area can be regarded as sufficient.
About the Author
L. V. Vereina
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) MFA Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Larisa V. Vereina, Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor at the Department of International Law
76, pr. Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119454
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Vereina L.V. International Liability Regime for Pollution of Marine Environment from Ships. Moscow Journal of International Law. 2022;(4):68-76. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/0869-0049-2022-4-68-76
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