Suchergebnisse

Gaps in Baltic Sear maritime boundaries / Erik Franckx -- Straits in the Baltic Sea : what passage rights apply? / Pirjo Kleemola-Juntunen -- Regulating eutrophication : flexible legal approaches and environmental governance in the Baltic Sea area / Brita Bohman -- Lack of regulation of chemical mixtures and its legal consequences in the Baltic Sea area / Lena Gipperth and Thomas Backhaus -- Salvage of wrecks in the Baltic Sea : a Finnish perspective / Jan Aminoff -- Government action against wrecks : a Finnish perspective in light of international law / Markku Suksi -- Subsea gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea area : civil liability issues / Peter Wetterstein -- Using the continental shelf for climate change mitigation : a Baltic Sea perspective / David Langlet -- Concluding remarks : regulatory gaps and broader governance patterns in the Baltic Sea / Henrik Ringbom and Marko Joas.

This book offers a comprehensive international law analysis of the European Union's maritime safety legislation. Acts of EU law since 1993 have been dealt with a variety of subjects, such as port State control, classification societies, vessel traffic management, ship construction, environmental protection and pollution sanctions. This legislation is analysed from the point of international law, notably the law of the sea and the international maritime conventions. The relationship between EU law and international law within the internal EU legal system is also analysed from the specific perspective of maritime safety law.

Introduction / Henrik Ringbom, Erik Røsæg, Trond Solvang -- Terminology and concepts / Henrik Ringbom, Felix Collin -- Autonomous offender ships and international maritime security law / Anna Petrig -- Developments, challenges, and prospects at the IMO / Henrik Ringbom -- Switching off regulatory requirements : flag state exemptions as a tool to facilitate experiments with highly automated vessels and their operational implementation / Frank Smeele -- Unmanned ships and fault as the basis of shipowner's liability / Felix Collin -- Man, machine and culpa : or finding a path towards strict liability / Trond Solvang -- Diabolus ex machine : when an autonomous ship does the unexpected / Erik Røsæg -- Autonomous ships and product liability under the EU Directive / Vibe Ulfbeck -- Autonomous technology in shipping : an increased role for negligence product liability? / Robert Veal -- Hull insurance of autonomous ships according to Nordic law : what are the challenges? / Trine-Lise Wilhelmsen, Hans Jacob Bull -- P&I perspectives / Tim Howse -- Insuring autonomous vessels : scoping the issues / Mika Viljanen -- Moving forward by looking back : insuring autonomous vessels under English hull and machinery cover and law / Meixian Song -- Seaworthiness and good seamanship in the age of unmanned vessels / Frank Stevens -- Manning of unmanned ships / Johan Schelin -- Pilotage of autonomous and remotely : controlled ships / Martin Davies.

"New technologies are being introduced to address the eutrophication of the Baltic Sea. By removing or chemically treating the seabed sediments, or by mechanically increasing oxygen levels in the deep sea, it is hoped that leakage of phosphorus from the seabed can be reduced. The effectiveness of such technologies is uncertain and they are scientifically controversial. Combatting Eutrophication in the Baltic Sea: Legal Aspects of Sea-Based Engineering Measures explores a number of legal issues under international, European and national law raised by such 'sea-based measures' aimed at improving the environment of the Baltic Sea. In the absence of a legal framework for the measures, the article also represents a case study in how international environmental law operates when general environmental law principles represent the main legal source available. It is concluded that in view of the scientific uncertainty surrounding the technologies, such principles do not offer sufficient guidance to national permit authorities who will ultimately decide on the matter"--