Environmental Law (Marine Environment)

Hamburg Environmental Law Conference 2011

2011-10-06T05:36:00.003+02:00

Hamburg has been known as the 2011 "green capital" of the Europe. Because of the importance of this award, the environmental experts arranged the first environmental law conference in Hamburg in 2011. It has been held on 15-16 September, and Environmental Lawyers as well as scientists from other fields related to the environment such as oceanography and economics took part in the discussions.

If you are interested in receiving the titles or abstracts of the presentations, please follow the link here http://www.icoel.org/index.php or contact me personally.

PSSA- 3 (conclusion)

2011-10-04T21:13:00.003+02:00

Now after the discussions about the PSSA , APMs and their relation with the UNCLOS, it is the time to answer the main question if it is necessary for the UNCLOS to make more developments and insert the rules of the PSSAs and APMs to its environmental protection tools.
As the PSSA are new concepts in the International Environmental Law, and have been legalized because of a definite need, it seems to be useful or even necessary to add such concepts to the UNCLOS, especially because these concepts are younger than the UNCLOS, as UNCLOS have been adopted in 1982, and these concepts have been firstly adopted in 2001 in the Resolution A.885(21) of the IMO.
As a general idea, and without any comment about the details of the development, I would suggest to add the concept of the PSSA and APMs to the UNCLOS in order to make more powerful guarantees for the environmental protection of the particularly Sensitive Sea Areas.

PSSA-2 (main resources)

2010-07-13T10:40:00.007+02:00

The IMO resolutions related to "Particularly Sensitive Sea Area" are available here
http://www.imo.org/
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Resolution A.720(17)
adopted on 6.November.1991
Guidelines for the Designation of Special Areas and the Identification of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas
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RESOLUTION A.885(21)
adopted on 25 November 1999
PROCEDURES FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE SEA
AREAS AND THE ADOPTION OF ASSOCIATED PROTECTIVE MEASURES AND
AMENDMENTS TO THE GUIDELINES CONTAINED IN RESOLUTION A.720(17)
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Resolution A.927(22)
Adopted on 29 November 2001
(Agenda item 11)
GUIDELINES FOR THE DESIGNATION OF SPECIAL AREAS UNDER
MARPOL 73/78 AND GUIDELINES FOR THE IDENTIFICATION AND
DESIGNATION OF PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE SEA AREAS
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Resolution A.982(24)
Adopted on 1 December 2005
(Agenda item 11)
REVISED GUIDELINES FOR THE IDENTIFICATION AND DESIGNATION OF
PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE SEA AREAS

PSSA-1

2010-07-13T10:35:00.004+02:00

On Friday, July 9 2010, a seminar has been held in Hamburg, with the cooperation of University of Hamburg, Max-Palnck institute and BSH(Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany) under the title of
"Is there a need for a further development of UNCLOS? "
A papre presented by me was under the title of
"Regulations for Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas (PSSA) with associated protective measures",
which focuses on the PSSAs and APMs and its relation with the UNCLOS.
PSSAs have been legalized since 1991 by the Resolutions of the IMO (International Maritime Organization), firstly Resolution A.720(17), later in 1999 by Resolution A.885(21), in 2002 by Resolution A.927(22) and finally in 2005 by Resolution A.982(24).
in next posts, I will add the related documents as much as possible.

marine Env.canada

2009-11-11T14:15:00.003+01:00

I find it a very useful website even in legal matters.
the idea just came to my mind, that it would be also a good research topic:
a comparative study of Iranian and Canadian environmental law
http://www.tc.gc.ca/marinesafety/oep/environment/ballastwater/defined.htm