Creative Commons

This dissertation was written as part of the LLM in Transnational and European Commercial Law, Banking Law, Arbitration/ Mediation at the International Hellenic University. Industrial production has resulted in the need to manage waste, some of it hazardous, which sometimes need to travel. This dissertation elaborates on factors concerning hazardous waste travelling by sea. This transport may cause severe damage to human lives, ships, other properties, and the marine environment and, therefore, States have formed a widely accepted legal frame to regulate this management. Hellas has its part in hazardous waste destroying, having implemented in national law all relevant European and international legislation, following a specific procedure, contributing to environment and mankind protection. This paper is focused on the procedure, the transboundary movement of dangerous waste from Hellas to other countries. The main concern is describing and understanding transboundary movement, and its stages, as well as referring to all parties involved and explaining their duties. Hazardous waste classification will occupy a part in this paper. Ways of management will occupy a brief chapter just to acquire some notions of existing possibilities. The legal framework covers a part in this dissertation presenting legislations from all over the world, combined and applicable depending on the States involved. All operators, generators, shippers, freight forwarders, carriers, port operators, recipients, as well as their duties and obligations, will be analyzed together with the relevant procedures, stage by stage, related to each operator. The State as regulatory operator will also be examined as well as its administrative issued acts. A general approach of problems, associated with the transport of hazardous waste, will be attempted in combination with empirical practice. Illegality of this movement occupies a part of this research, only from the perspective of effectiveness of the relevant legislation and because of its vital importance. Did States’ efforts accomplish a successful hazardous waste management? Throughout this dissertation, an attempt will be made to answer this question. Keywords: Hazardous, Waste, Transboundary, Maritime, Shipment. Aikaterini Haliskou 11 February 2020