Port State Control and Jurisdiction: Evolution of the Port State Regime

Abstract

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Table of Conventions -- Table of Cases -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Regime and Access of Vessels to Foreign Ports - A Definitional Controversy -- 1. The Right of Access to Internal Waters -- 2. Sources of Law Concerning the Right of Entry into Ports -- 2.1. International Maritime Committee -- 2.2. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development -- 2.3. International Maritime Organization -- 2.4. Bilateral Treaties -- 2.5. Decisions in International Adjudication -- 2.6. Other Multinational Conventions -- 3. Right of Innocent Passage in Internal Waters -- 4. Conclusions -- 5. Regulatory and Enforcement Authority of the Port State -- 5.1. Jurisdiction to Regulate Vessels in Internal Waters -- 5.2. Jurisdiction over Activities with External or Internal Effects -- 5.3. Arrest of Vessels in Foreign Ports -- 5.3.1. The IMC Draft Convention for Revision of the 1952 Arrest Convention -- 5.4. Jurisdiction over Activities Preceding the Entry into Internal Waters of the Foreign Vessel -- Chapter 2. International Legal Standards and Regulation of Vessel - Source Pollution -- 1. The Legal Nature of the International Legal Standards -- 1.1. International Legal Standards in Regional Conventions -- 1.2. International Legal Standards in the 1986 United Nations Convention on Conditions for Registration of Ships -- 1.3. Conclusions -- 2. The Role of the IMO Conventions -- 2.1. International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954 (OILPOL) -- 2.2. International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as incorporated in the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL 73/78) -- 2.3. International Convention on Load Lines, 1966.