书目名称 | Responsibility and Liability in the Context of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes by Sea |
副标题 | Existing Rules and t |
编辑 | Jan Albers |
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概述 | Comprehensive overview of the international legal regime governing different aspects of trans boundary hazardous waste movements.Examines the international responsibility of States as well as civil li |
丛书名称 | Hamburg Studies on Maritime Affairs |
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描述 | .The term “hazardous wastes” covers a wide range of disused products and production wastes generated not only in industrial sectors, but also in all areas of everyday life. Hazardous wastes are to a large extent shipped by sea to third countries for recycling or disposal. While the procedural requirements for such movements are laid out in the 1989 Basel Convention, explicit rules of responsibility and liability for resulting damages are neither provided by the Basel Convention nor by other international conventions. The Liability Protocol to the Basel Convention of 1999 has not yet entered into force. This book examines the existing rules of responsibility and liability applying to States and private persons and outlines the conditions under which liability may be incurred. Subsequently, the advantages and shortcomings of the 1999 Liability Protocol are analyzed. Although this Protocol faces substantial political headwind, from a legal perspective it includes principally useful andreasonable approaches and should therefore be ratified.. |
出版日期 | Book 2015 |
关键词 | Basel Convention; Law of the sea; Liability protocol to the Basel Convention; State responsibility; Tran |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43349-2 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-662-43348-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-662-43349-2Series ISSN 1614-2462 Series E-ISSN 1867-9587 |
issn_series | 1614-2462 |
copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015 |