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Nature Protection in the Arctic: A New Soviet Legislative Initiative

Nature Protection in the Arctic: A New Soviet Legislative Initiative 377 USSR Nature Protection in the Arctic: A New Soviet Legislative Initiative On I June 1990, the Council of Ministers of the USSR enacted implementing leg- islation concerning nature protection in the extreme north and adjacent maritime water expanses.' This decree finds its roots in the 1984 edict on the Economic Zone,2 where the following provision can be found: "The competent Soviet organs can determine, in a manner established by the U.S.S.R. legislation, rules for the prevention, reduction and control of pollution of the marine environment, and also for the safety of navigation and can enforce these rules in areas covered with ice and having particular natural characteristics, where pollution of the marine environment could cause major harm to the ecological balance or disturb it irreversibly."3 It will be noted that even though this article very much reflects the content of Article 234 of the 1982 LOS Convention4 it is by no means identical.' By the end of the same year the USSR promulgated a more detailed edict On the Strengthening of the Protection of Nature in the Extreme North and the Sea Areas Adjacent to the 378 Northern Coast of the USSR6 based exactly on both above-mentioned http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Estuarine and Coastal Law (in 1993 continued as The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law) Brill

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Brill
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© 1991 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0268-0106
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1875-2993
DOI
10.1163/187529991X00207
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Abstract

377 USSR Nature Protection in the Arctic: A New Soviet Legislative Initiative On I June 1990, the Council of Ministers of the USSR enacted implementing leg- islation concerning nature protection in the extreme north and adjacent maritime water expanses.' This decree finds its roots in the 1984 edict on the Economic Zone,2 where the following provision can be found: "The competent Soviet organs can determine, in a manner established by the U.S.S.R. legislation, rules for the prevention, reduction and control of pollution of the marine environment, and also for the safety of navigation and can enforce these rules in areas covered with ice and having particular natural characteristics, where pollution of the marine environment could cause major harm to the ecological balance or disturb it irreversibly."3 It will be noted that even though this article very much reflects the content of Article 234 of the 1982 LOS Convention4 it is by no means identical.' By the end of the same year the USSR promulgated a more detailed edict On the Strengthening of the Protection of Nature in the Extreme North and the Sea Areas Adjacent to the 378 Northern Coast of the USSR6 based exactly on both above-mentioned

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International Journal of Estuarine and Coastal Law (in 1993 continued as The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1991

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