ECJ IRELAND LAW OF THE SEA SELLAFIELD CASE
June 1st, 2006
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRELAND has been censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for using the United Nations Law of the Sea's dispute settlement procedure to tackle Britain's pollution of the Irish Sea via the Sellafield plant. The court ruled that in European Union (EU) territorial waters, it had exclusive jurisdiction, and Dublin should have asked it to censure Britain, not the UN. The court was particularly upset that Ireland has asked the UN convention tribunal to declare the UK had broken EU environmental legislation at Sellafield, which the ECJ ...
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