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.