Ship-breaking raises safety, health and environmental issues. The industry is concentrated in South-East Asia, where lax and weakly enforced rules allow dismantling activities to be performed with environmental-degrading techniques (as beaching). The international framework (e.g. UNCLOS, the Basel, MARPOL and Nairobi Conventions) proved to be ineffective in this field. Confirming its global environmental leadership, the EU is attempting to tackle such issues: not only it promoted the adoption and ratified the Hong Convention establishing mandatory standards for dismantling ships and shipbreaking yards, but the EU also enacted Regulation (EU) No 1257/2013 to strengthen the Convention regime and foster its implementation. This paper analyses the existing regime provided for by the EU Regulation with a view to investigating whether clashes of jurisdiction between EU and Asian countries might arise.

Ship recycling and potential conflicts under EU and Asian regimes

F. MUNARI
2018-01-01

Abstract

Ship-breaking raises safety, health and environmental issues. The industry is concentrated in South-East Asia, where lax and weakly enforced rules allow dismantling activities to be performed with environmental-degrading techniques (as beaching). The international framework (e.g. UNCLOS, the Basel, MARPOL and Nairobi Conventions) proved to be ineffective in this field. Confirming its global environmental leadership, the EU is attempting to tackle such issues: not only it promoted the adoption and ratified the Hong Convention establishing mandatory standards for dismantling ships and shipbreaking yards, but the EU also enacted Regulation (EU) No 1257/2013 to strengthen the Convention regime and foster its implementation. This paper analyses the existing regime provided for by the EU Regulation with a view to investigating whether clashes of jurisdiction between EU and Asian countries might arise.
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