Overview
This book offers a comprehensive international law analysis of the European Union’s maritime safety legislation. This is a relatively novel field of activity of the EU, but its development has been very rapid. Since 1993, over 40 acts of EU law have been adopted, dealing 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. Regional legislation in a field that is traditionally regulated primarily by means of international conventions is bound to create tensions with the related international conventions and with well-established principles of international law. This study assesses how the EU has acted as a flag State, port State and coastal State and measures the trends in this development against the international legal framework. More detailed legal analyses are offered for specific aspects of EU legislation that are considered to be particularly interesting from an international law point of view. 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Henrik Ringbom
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Martinus Nijhoff
Volume: 64
Weight: 1.154kg
ISBN: 9789004168961
ISBN 10: 9004168966
Pages: 602
Publication Date: 25 July 2008
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This book is a must-read to discover the legal relationship existing between the European Union's maritime safety legislation and international law. In many cases, the European Union's maritime safety legislation goes beyond what is envisaged in international law, as it sets requirements higher than those that have been agreed internationally. Among other questions, this means that the sphere of application of such legislation needs to be specified. It is not an easy question to answer; however, the author manages to do so in this book. He achieves this by an interesting analysis of the abundant EU legislation on maritime safety in a book that we highly recommend. (The Journal of International Maritime Law, 2009)
"""This book is a must-read to discover the legal relationship existing between the European Union’s maritime safety legislation and international law. In many cases, the European Union’s maritime safety legislation goes beyond what is envisaged in international law, as it sets requirements higher than those that have been agreed internationally. Among other questions, this means that the sphere of application of such legislation needs to be specified. It is not an easy question to answer; however, the author manages to do so in this book. He achieves this by an interesting analysis of the abundant EU legislation on maritime safety in a book that we highly recommend."" (The Journal of International Maritime Law, 2009)"
Author Information
Dr Henrik Ringbom is currently Head of Sector for Environment Protection, Liability and Compensation at the European Maritime Safety Agency in Lisbon, Portugal. Between 1997 and 2003 he worked in the Maritime Safety Unit of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium, whereafter he spent four years as Research Fellow at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, Oslo, Norway.
