The MOX plant judgment of the ECJ: How exclusive is the jurisdiction of the ECJ?

European Environmental Law Review

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 291-296

  Lavranos, Nikolaos ^a,b  

^a Department of European Law ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; LEGISLATION; PLANNING LEGISLATION;

EID: 33750113319     PISSN: 09661646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.54648/eelr2006029     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. ECJ Opinion 1/91 (EEA) [1991] ECR 1-6079 [emphasis added].
2. Case C-145/04 (Spain v. UK), Opinion of AG Tizzano, delivered on 6.4.2006;
3. Case C-388/95 (Belgium v. Spain) [2000] ECR I-3123;
4. Case 141/78 (France v. UK) [1979] ECR 2923.
5. See generally: Lavranos, Concurrence of Jurisdiction between the ECJ and other international courts and tribunals, European Environmental Law Review (2005), art 1: 213-225; part 2: 240-251.
6. See further: Romano, The proliferation of international judicial bodies: The pieces of the puzzle, NYU Journal of International Law and Politics (1999) 709-751;
7. Martinez, Towards an International Judicial System, Stanford Law Review (2003) 429-529.
8. See: Orrego Vicuña, International Dispute Settlement in an Evolving Global Society, Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture 2001, Cambridge (2004).
9. See: Hafner, Pros and Cons ensuing from Fragmentation of International Law, Diversity or Cacophony?: New Sources of Norms in International Law - Symposium, Michigan Journal of International Law (2004) 849-863.
10. See further: Alvarez, International Organizations as Law-makers, Oxford 2005.
11. ICTY, Appeals Chamber (Tadic), IT-94-1-A of 15.7.1999, paras. 115-116; confirmed in: ICTY, Appeals Chamber (Aleksovski), IT-95-14/1-A of 24.3.2000, paras. 92 et seq., both decisions are available at: http:// www.un.org/icty/.
12. ICJ (Nicaragua v. US), judgment of 27.6.1986, available at: http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/icases/inus/inus_ijudgment/ inus_ijudgment_19860627.pdf.
13. See generally: Kranenborg, Art. 8 en de verificatiebevoegdheden van de Commissie - Colas Est en Roquete Frères, Sociaal Economisch Wetgeving (2003) 49-57.
14. Case C-94/00 (Roquette Frères) [2002] ECR I-9011.
15. ECrtHR (Colas Est v. France), judgment of 16.4.2002, available at: http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/view.asp?item=2&portal= hbkm&action=html&highlight=colas%20%7C%20est&sessionid= 7797262&skin=hudoc-en.
16. See: Lavranos, supra note 3.
17. See generally: Koutrakos, EU International Relations Law, Oxford 2006.
18. See: Lavranos, Decisions of International Organizations in the European and Domestic legal orders of selected EU Member States, Groningen 2004.
19. See for the materials of the dispute: Permanent Court of Arbitration, available at: www.pca-cpa.org.
20. See further: Shany, The First MOX plant Award: The need to harmonize competing environmental regimes and dispute settlement procedures, Leiden Journal of International Law (2004) 815-828.
21. ITLOS (MOX plant), Request for Provisional Measures, Order of 3.12.2001, available at: www.itlos.org.
22. Ibid.
23. UNCLOS arbitral tribunal (MOX plant), Suspension of Proceedings on Jurisdiction and Merits and Request for further Provisional Measures, Order No. 3 of 24.6.2003, available at: www.pca-cpa.org.
24. Ibid.
25. Case C-459/03 (Commission v. Ireland) judgment of 30.5.2006, available at: http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=en.
26. Council Decision 98/392/EEC of 23.3.1998 concerning the conclusion by the EC of the UN Convention of 10.12.1982 on the Law of the Sea and the Agreement of 28.7.1994 relating to the implementation of Part XI thereof, OJ 1998 L179/1.
27. Ibid., para. 84.
28. Ibid., para. 110.
29. Ibid., para. 123.
30. Ibid., para. 132.
31. Ibid., para. 154 [emphasis added].
32. Ibid., para. 135.
33. Ibid., para. 169.
34. Ibid., para. 179.
35. Case 26/62 (Van Gend & Loos) [1962] ECR 95, the ECJ stated that the Community constitutes a new legal order of international law,
36. whereas in Case 6/64 (Costa v. ENEL) [1964] ECR 685, the ECJ stated that the EEC Treaty has created its own legal system.
37. See generally: de Witte, 'Direct Effect, Supremacy and the Nature of the Legal Order' in Craig/De Búrca (eds), The Evolution of EU Law (Oxford 1999) 177-213.
38. See: Koutrakos, "The interpretation of mixed-agreements under the preliminary ruling procedure", European Foreign Affairs Review (2002) 25-52.
39. See further: Oen, Internationale Streitbeilegung im Kontext gemischter Verträge der EG und ihrer Mitgliedstaaten, (Berlin 2005).
40. See eg: Case C-53/96 (Hermès) [1998] ECR I-3603.
41. OSPAR Arbitral Tribunal (MOX plant), Final award of 2 July 2003, available at: www.pca-cpa.org.
42. Arbitral Tribunal (Ijzeren Rijn), Arbitral award of 24 May 2005, available at: www.pca-cpa.org.
43. See for details: Lavranos, "The MOX plant and IJzeren Rijn disputes: Which court is the supreme arbiter?" Leiden Journal of International Law (2006) 223-246.
44. See: Hafner, "Pros and Cons ensuing from Fragmentation of International Law, Diversity or Cacophony?: New Sources of Norms in International Law - Symposium", Michigan Journal of International Law (2004) 849-863;
45. Koskenniemi/Leino, "Fragmentation of International Law? Postmodern anxieties", Leiden Journal of International Law (2002) 553-579;
46. Dupuy, "The Danger of Fragmentation or Unification of the International Legal System and the ICJ", NYU Journal of International Law and Politics (1999) 791-807.
47. See for details: Lavranos, supra note 38.
48. ECrtHR (Bosphorus v. Ireland), judgment of 30.6.2005, available at: http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/view.asp?item=1&portal= hbkm&action=html&highlight=bosphorus&sessionid= 7810902&skin=hudoc-en.
49. See further on the so-lange-model: Lavranos, Das So-Lange-Prinzip im Verhältnis von EGMR und EuGH, Europarecht (2006) 79-92;
50. Jacqué, Droit Communautaire et Convention européenne des droits de l'homme, L'arret Bosphorus, une jurisprudence "So-lange II" de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme?, Revue trimestrielle de droit européen (2005) 749-768.