The Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses.

• Author: Bruhács, J.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1993.; ©1993.
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (251 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- CHAPTER I Introduction -- 1. Outline of the development of regulations relating to the non-navigational uses of international watercourses -- 2. The international legal order of the non-navigational uses of international watercourses in international jurisprudence -- 3. Resolutions of international scientific associations -- 4. Relations between the law of non-navigational uses of international watercourses and international environmental law -- Notes -- CHAPTER II The concept of international watercourses -- 1. Preliminary remarks -- 2. The traditional approach -- 3. The modern approach -- 4. A compromise between traditional and modern approaches -- 5. Pending problems -- a) Permissibility of maintaining a distinction between national and international watercourses -- b) International groundwaters -- c) International water resources -- Notes -- CHAPTER III The problem of territorial sovereignty in international relations arising from the non-navigational uses of watercourses -- 1. Territorial sovereignty as a key element in international relations arising from the non-navigational uses of watercourses -- 2. Extreme concepts of territorial sovereignty -- 3. Solving the clash between extreme concepts of territorial sovereignty and its consequences -- Notes -- CHAPTER IV International law-making establishing the regime of non-navigational uses of international watercourses -- 1. Specific features of the international law-making process in the field of non-navigational uses of international watercourses -- a) The specific character of international watercourses -- b) The problem of reciprocity -- 2. Interests linked to the regime of international watercourse usage -- 3. International treaties or conventions regulating the regime of international watercourse usage.

4. General international law -- a) Importance -- b) Basic or fundamental principles of international law -- c) Customary international law -- d) New aspects of general international law -- Notes -- CHAPTER V The water management regime of the Danube Basin -- 1. Background -- 2. The recent history of the Danube water management regime: the Commission technique permanente du régime des eaux - CRED (Permanent Technical Hydraulic System Commission of the Water Regime) -- 3. The water utilization regime in the Danube Basin de lege lata -- a) Survey of treaties -- b) Principal elements of the water utilization regime of the Danube -- c) The role of the CMEA in the water utilization regime of the Danube Basin -- d) The current situation of Bős/Gabčikovo-Nagymaros system -- Notes -- CHAPTER VI The prohibition of interference with the regime of international watercourses -- 1. The existence of this prohibition in general international law -- 2. Interpretation of this prohibition -- 3. Protection of existing water uses -- a) Prohibition on causing damage to actual water uses -- b) Relative protection of actual water uses -- 4. Acknowledgement of a right to future utilization -- 5. Flood protection -- Notes -- CHAPTER VII The principle of reasonable and equitable share -- 1. The formation of this concept -- 2. Reasonable and equitable share as a method of coordinating utilization rights -- a) Efforts to formulate the principle of a reasonable and equitable share -- b) Conceptual elements of a reasonable and equitable share -- c) Integrated utilization -- 3. Reasonable and equitable share as a result -- 4. Procedural obligations -- a) The obligations to notify -- b) The obligation to consult or negotiate -- Notes -- CHAPTER VIII The prohibition on pollution -- 1. The development of this prohibition -- a) The prohibition on pollution in international treaties.

b) The prohibition on pollution in general international law -- 2. Formulations of the prohibition on pollution within the context of general international law -- a) The concept of pollution -- b) Formulations of the prohibition on pollution -- Notes -- CHAPTER IX The application of international legal norms relating to non-navigational uses of international watercourses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Committees -- 3. The utilization regime of international watercourses and international responsibility -- a) Introduction -- b) Possible special features of international responsibility in connection with the utilization regimes of international watercourses -- c) The role of international responsibility in the application of the utilization regime of international watercourses -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Table of cases -- List of treaties and other international documents.