Deep Sea Mining Partnerships with Developing States: Favourable Collaborations or Opportunistic Endeavours?
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Abstract
In order to engage in deep sea mining activities on the international seabed (otherwise known as ‘the Area’), non-State actors must be sponsored by a State, which bears the responsibility to ensure that the sponsored entity complies with the applicable rules. Not only the State of nationality, but also the State which exercises ‘effective control’ might be required to serve as a sponsoring State, depending on the circumstances. However, it is not completely clear how ‘effective control’ should be interpreted. Forum shopping seems a realistic possibility, and the recent trend of partnerships between private deep sea mining companies and developing States can produce similar effects. These collaborations might be beneficial to both parties, but given the privileges awarded to developing States, it should be scrutinised as to whether such partnerships undermine the principle of the common heritage of mankind and the objective to realise benefits for mankind as a whole.
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Deep Sea Mining Partnerships with Developing States: Favourable Collaborations or Opportunistic Endeavours?
In: The International Journal of Marine and Coastal LawSearch for other papers by Klaas Willaert in
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Research Centre for European Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, University of Bremen Bremen Germany
Search for other papers by Pradeep A Singh in
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PubMed
Abstract
In order to engage in deep sea mining activities on the international seabed (otherwise known as ‘the Area’), non-State actors must be sponsored by a State, which bears the responsibility to ensure that the sponsored entity complies with the applicable rules. Not only the State of nationality, but also the State which exercises ‘effective control’ might be required to serve as a sponsoring State, depending on the circumstances. However, it is not completely clear how ‘effective control’ should be interpreted. Forum shopping seems a realistic possibility, and the recent trend of partnerships between private deep sea mining companies and developing States can produce similar effects. These collaborations might be beneficial to both parties, but given the privileges awarded to developing States, it should be scrutinised as to whether such partnerships undermine the principle of the common heritage of mankind and the objective to realise benefits for mankind as a whole.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 1689 | 367 | 60 |
| Full Text Views | 262 | 67 | 6 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 586 | 141 | 18 |