Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

2-2010

Abstract

The EU has the institutions and the comprehensive legal regime to regulate the prevention of vessel-source pollution within the Member States and these are reviewed here together with the international conventions. The EU has been much more proactive since the Erika and Prestige disasters with the adoption of a series of new regulations on the prevention of vessel-source pollution.This legislation also demonstrates an expansion of the competencies of EU institutions towards Member States, and the EU approach, although largely regarded as a success, has also been criticised as tending towards unilateralism.

Discipline

Environmental Law | Law of the Sea

Publication

Journal of International Maritime Law

Volume

15

Issue

5

First Page

411

Last Page

422

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