Recenzija, Prikaz slučaja
Republika Hrvatska i isključivi gospodarski pojas [= The Republic of Croatia and the exclusive economic zone] (author Marina Vokic Zuzul) (Zagreb, 2003) : [book review]
Vesna Skorupan
orcid.org/0000-0002-1591-7247
; Jadranski zavod HAZU, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This book represents a very systematic analysis of the provisions of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea about the exclusive economic zone and its implementation in Croatian legal order. The author divided the subject matter of this book into six chapters. In the first part she explains the legal nature and historical development of this institute of the international law of the sea. Further she continues with the analysis of the specific legal regime and the breadth of the exclusive economic zone. The author gives examples of national laws of States, which proclaimed the exclusive economic zone. The topic of the second part of the book is ''The exclusive economic zone and coastal States''. The author analyses rights, jurisdiction and duties of the coastal State in the exclusive economic zone. In this part of the book the author also analyses: conservation of the living resources, utilization of the living resources, stocks occurring within the exclusive economic zones of two or more coastal States or both within the exclusive economic zone and in an area beyond and adjacent, marine mammals, anadromus stocks and sedentary species. In the third part the author elaborates on the rights and duties of other States in the exclusive economic zone. In the fourth part attention is devoted to the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone between States. In the fifth part of the book the author deals with relevant questions regarding to the Republic of Croatia's right to proclaim its exclusive economic zone. In conclusion the author explains all rights and duties which the Republic of Croatia would obtain by proclaiming the exclusive economic zone. Those would be: sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natural resources, whether living or non-living, or the waters superjacent to the sea-bed and of the sea- bed and its subsoil, and with regard to other activities for the economic exploitation and exploration of the zone, such as the production of energy from the water, currents and winds, the establishment and use of artificial islands, installations and structures, marine scientific research, the protection and preservation of the marine environment and other rights and duties provided for in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The book is written very concisely, systematically and in clear and highly readable style. It serves as a very actual information for anyone who wants an information on this subject, as well as for those who are engaged in a theoretical and practical way in this law of the sea regime.
Ključne riječi
book review; exclusive economic zone;
Hrčak ID:
42015
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.12.2003.
Posjeta: 1.191 *