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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Enforcing International Maritime Legislation on Air Pollution through UNCLOS by Jesper Jarl Fano
This book explores the scope and applicability of the United Nations Conventions on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) relating to the enforcement of MARPOL Annex VI and the strengthened global sulphur limit which comes into force in 2020. The book initially provides an overall introduction to Port State Control (PSC) and the relevant regulations of MARPOL Annex VI UNCLOS the EU Sulphur Directive and basic jurisdictional principles of international law. The amplified enforcement and notifying obligations of UNCLOS chapter XII placed on flag States and the broadened jurisdictions for port and coastal States are subsequently examined. This includes extraterritorial enforcement and sanctioning by port States for Annex VI violations on the high seas and how overlapping jurisdictions are resolved.Lastly the book offers an analysis of whether future regulatory measures on GHG (adopted through IMO’s GHG Strategy) could be considered peremptory norms of a ‘jus cogens’ character.