RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE BARCELONA CONVENTION SYSTEM AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ORDER

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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE BARCELONA CONVENTION
SYSTEM AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ORDER

• Professor José Juste Ruiz
• University of Valencia

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1. THE BARCELONA CONVENTION SYSTEM
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A. Legal instruments

• BC 76 Amendments 95 (in force 9 July 04)
• Emergency 76 New Prot 02 (in force 17 March 04)
• SPA 82 New Prot 95 (in force 12 Dec 99)
• Dumping 76 Amendments 95 (not in force)
• LBS 80 Amendments 96 (not in force)
• Offshore 94 (11/4 not in force)
• Hazardous wastes 96 (11/5 not in force)

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B. Contracting Parties

• Convention 76 7 EU Med States and EC
• 95 7 EU Med States and EC
• Emergencies 76 7 EU Med States and EC
• 02 3 EU Med States and EC
• (? Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Spain)
• SPA/BD 82 7 EU Med States and EC
• 95 6 EU Med States and EC
• (? Greece)

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C. Scope of the norms

• Geographical BC Art. 2 (LBS 3 SPA/BD 2)
• Personal Parties 3rd States (BC 3.4 SPA/BD
  28)
• Binding force Conventional obligations (Art.3)
  absence of legislative powers of the MCP (Art.
  18) and LBS action plans, programmes and
  measures (Art. 5.2) practice of consensus

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D. Implementation and enforcement

• Monitoring BC Art. 12
• National Environmental Legislation BC Art. 14
• MCP implementing functions BC Art. 18. 2
• Reports and Compliance Control BC Art. 26, 27
• Liability (BC 16) and Dispute Settlement (Annex
  A. Arbitration)

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2. THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ORDER
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• A. Legal instruments Foundational Treaties
  51/57 SEA 86 MAASTRICHT 92 AMSTERDAM 97 NICE
  01.
• B. Membership 6 MS 9 (1972) 10 (1979) 12
  (1986) 15 (1994) 25 (2003)
• from 2 (FRANCE ITALY) to 7 MED MS (CYPRUS,
  FRANCE, GREECE ITALY MALTA SLOVENIA SPAIN)
  

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• C. Internal norms scope and intensity Art. 249
  judicial doctrine of supremacy and direct
  effect
• D. External relations Art. 175.4 300 mixity at
  its worst dimension
• E. Policy instruments Euro-Mediterranean
  Partnership (EMP) 1995 European Neighbourhood
  Policy (ENP) 2004 MEDA and ENPI Thematic
  Strategy on the Protection and Conservation of
  the Marine Environment 2005 and Proposal of a
  Directive Environmental Strategy for the
  Mediterranean 2006

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3. SYNERGIES AND CONTRADICTIONS
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• Concurrence of action
• EU-MS EU/MS- MAP Legal instruments
• B. EC operative deficit
• 1. Shared competences the
  concurrent/parallel dilemma
• 2. Conclusion of legal instruments mixed
  treaties without a Declaration concerning EU
  competences
• 3. Representation at meetings special exercice
  of voting rights(BC 25) need for
  inter-institutional (and MS) arrangements

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• EC implementing surplus
• COMMISSION (211,212)12
• COURT OF JUSTICE (220-)
• EUROPEAN PARLIEMENT (192 -)
• D. European Court of Justice case law
• Judgement of 15 July 2004 (Preliminary Ruling in
  case C-213/03)
• Judgement of 7 October 2004 (Commission v.
  France in case C-239/03)