Legal Framework on the Marine Environment Protection of Straits used for International Navigation: Has It Been Effective in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore?

• Author: Hazmi Rusli & R. Dremliuga & Wan I. Talaat
• Pages: 75-76

Marine Environmental Protection 75

IX JEAIL 1 (2016)

Hazmi Rusli

∗

& R. Dremliuga

∗∗

& Wan I. Talaat

∗∗∗

There are approximately 116 straits used for international navigation around the

world. Some of them are important international maritime chokepoints, namely the

Dover Strait, Hormuz Strait, Straits of Malacca and Singapore and the Russian

straits across the Northeast Arctic Passage. Due to the high number of navigational

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This article examines the applicable international legal framework on protection of the

marine environment of straits used for international navigation such as Part XII of

the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and other related legal measures

like International Maritime Organization conventions on protection of the marine

environment. This article concludes by stating that the present framework is not

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Legal Framework on

the Marine Environment

Protection of Straits used for

International Navigation:

Has It Been Effective in the

Straits of Malacca and

Singapore?

∗ Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Syariah and Law, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia. LL.B., LL.M.(IIUM), Ph.D.(U.

Wollongong). ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0099-6875. The author may be contacted at: hazmirusli@usim.edu.

my/ Address: Faculty of Syariah and Law, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, 71800 Bandar Baru Nilai, Nilai, Negeri

Sembilan, sMalaysia

∗∗ Associate Professor. School of Law, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia. Ph.D. (Far Eastern State

Univ.). The author may be contacted at: Dremliuga.ri@dvfu.ru/ Address: School of Law, Campus Far Eastern Federal

University, Ajax, Vladivostok, Russia

∗∗∗ Professor, Institute of Environment and Oceanography, University Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia. LL.B.(IIUM),

M.Sc./Ph.D. (U. Putra Malaysia). The author may be contacted at: wia@umt.edu.my/Address: Institute of Oceanography

and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14330/jeail.2016.9.1.04