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Samoylenko E.A. The structure of international legal regime regarding the navigational usage of international rivers

Abstract: This article is dedicated to the issues of main components of international legal regime of navigation on international inland waterways. The author examines this problem from the position of the legal theory, and presents elements that are part of the structure of the legal regime of navigational usage of international rivers. The author believes that the international legal regime of the navigational usage of international rivers must be aimed at setting a unified equal order and conditions for passage through the waterways. A special attention is given to the issues of content of freedom of navigation of international rivers. The author claims that the principles of international law should be projected upon the regulation of navigation on the international rivers. The author highlights significant and insignificant components of legal regulation of international marine traffic. As the main method of legal regulation, the author proposes using an international agreement that would define the area of the regime of navigation on international rivers, contain the norms of material and procedural law, as well as institutional mechanisms of cooperation in this sphere between the countries, and the mechanism of regulation of disputes between them.


Keywords:

riparian state, innocent passage, navigational usage, international river law, inland waterway, international waterway, international river, international legal regime, freedom of navigation, timber floating


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