Chapter 2
Implementation of the Rules
of the UNCLOS Through Universal
and Regional Organizations
Mariko Kawano
Abstract Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS),
international cooperation through universal, regional, or subregional organizations is
particularly important for the purpose of the implementation of the rules concerning
the conservation and management of the fish stocks (CMFS) and the protection and
preservation of the marine environment (PPME). There were numerous international
organizations or conventional arrangements for these purposes even before the
UNCLOS. However, since the adoption of the UNCLOS, by considering the new
development of scientific and technological knowledge and recognizing the needs of
new legal rules and approaches to respond to them, new organizations and arrangements have been established both for CMFS and for PPME. Moreover, the organizations and arrangements prior to the UNCLOS have been reviewed or replaced by
new mechanisms. The universal organizations contribute to the development of new
legal rules and provide the mechanisms for coordination and enhancement of the
function of regional organizations and arrangements. Today, various and complicated overlap and interaction can be noted between the legal rules concerning CMFS
and those concerning PPME. Marine living resources are considered to constitute a
part of the marine environment and various principles and approaches of international environmental law are introduced to the measures for CMFS. Under these
circumstances, the cooperation between the organizations for CMFS and those for
PPME may contribute to the coordination and harmonization of the legal rules
concerning these different but closely related matters.
1 Introduction
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), contains various
general and framework rules and requires the States concerned to substantiate the
appropriate rules for their implementation. As international cooperation is essential
M. Kawano (*)
Waseda University, Faculty of Law, Tokyo, Japan
e-mail: mkawano@waseda.jp
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
M. C. Ribeiro et al. (eds.), Global Challenges and the Law of the Sea,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42671-2_2
9
Implementation of the Rules
of the UNCLOS Through Universal
and Regional Organizations
Mariko Kawano
Abstract Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS),
international cooperation through universal, regional, or subregional organizations is
particularly important for the purpose of the implementation of the rules concerning
the conservation and management of the fish stocks (CMFS) and the protection and
preservation of the marine environment (PPME). There were numerous international
organizations or conventional arrangements for these purposes even before the
UNCLOS. However, since the adoption of the UNCLOS, by considering the new
development of scientific and technological knowledge and recognizing the needs of
new legal rules and approaches to respond to them, new organizations and arrangements have been established both for CMFS and for PPME. Moreover, the organizations and arrangements prior to the UNCLOS have been reviewed or replaced by
new mechanisms. The universal organizations contribute to the development of new
legal rules and provide the mechanisms for coordination and enhancement of the
function of regional organizations and arrangements. Today, various and complicated overlap and interaction can be noted between the legal rules concerning CMFS
and those concerning PPME. Marine living resources are considered to constitute a
part of the marine environment and various principles and approaches of international environmental law are introduced to the measures for CMFS. Under these
circumstances, the cooperation between the organizations for CMFS and those for
PPME may contribute to the coordination and harmonization of the legal rules
concerning these different but closely related matters.
1 Introduction
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), contains various
general and framework rules and requires the States concerned to substantiate the
appropriate rules for their implementation. As international cooperation is essential
M. Kawano (*)
Waseda University, Faculty of Law, Tokyo, Japan
e-mail: mkawano@waseda.jp
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
M. C. Ribeiro et al. (eds.), Global Challenges and the Law of the Sea,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42671-2_2
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