The Mediterranean Coastal States and the European Community have adopted several international political and legal instruments for the protection of the Mediterranean Sea Area against pollution. Thus, they have created a regional environmental system that has inspired other regional agreements all over the world under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme. In this paper, I study all the legal and political measures adopted at a regional level to prevent, abate, combat and to the fullest possible extent eliminate pollution of the Mediterranean Sea Area resulting from exploration and exploitation of the continental shelf and the seabed and its subsoil.... [Leer más...]