EAN: 9783662433485

RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY IN THE CONTEXT OF ...

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 and reasonable approaches and
should therefore be ratified.

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