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The dismantling and recycling of end-of-life ships is carried out primarily in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China and Turkey, with only the latter two providing—relatively—reliable standards in terms of safety measures and/or environmental protection. Therefore, although the ship recycling industry offers jobs to thousands of the poorest labourers and constitutes a major source of second-hand resources such as recycled steel, this does not mitigate the damage it causes. The detriment encompasses, inter alia, illnesses such as particular forms of lung cancer, damage to human health resulting from high accident rates and irreparable devastation of South Asian beaches.
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Sands, Principles of International Environmental Law2 (2003), at 133.
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European Commission, ‘An EU strategy for better ship dismantling’, EU-doc. COM(2008) 767, para. 1.
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EU-doc. COM(2007) 575.
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See Shelton, ‘The Utility and Limits of Codes of Conduct for the Protection of the Environment’, in Kiss/Shelton/Ishibashi (eds.), Economic Globalization and Compliance with International Environmental Agreements (2003), 211, at 217–218.
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See Oftedal, ‘The Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, 2009’, Ship Scrapping & Recycling (Lloyd’s Maritime Academy seminar, 2009), at 35.
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Guidelines for the development of the Inventory of Hazardous Materials: adopted at MEPC 59 (17 July 2009), advanced version adopted at MEPC 62 (15 July 2011); Guidelines for safe and environmentally sound ship recycling; Guidelines for the development of the Ship Recycling Plan: adopted at MEPC 62 (15 July 2011); Guidelines for the authorization of Ship Recycling Facilities; Guidelines for survey and certification: to be adopted at MEPC 64 (October 2012); Guidelines for inspection of ships: to be adopted at MEPC 64 (October 2012); cf. Mikelis, ‘The Hong Kong Convention and the ongoing work of IMO’, International Ship Recycling Symposium 2010, at 22.
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Communication with Julio García Burgués, Head of the Waste Management Unit of DG Environment of the European Commission, 12 December 2011.
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The European Commission’s DG MOVE currently only participates in an inter-service group on ship recycling, very much to industry stakeholders’ chagrin.
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Engels, U.D. (2013). Conclusions and Perspectives. In: European Ship Recycling Regulation. Hamburg Studies on Maritime Affairs, vol 24. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35597-4_5
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