U The capacity to act as a port state in international law is best described NILATERAL INVITATION by the specific powers exercised over foreign ships, namely inspection, UNILATERAL PORT STATE JURISDICTION detention, expulsion or request of any type of information prior to the To attend the public defence entry into the port. Many of these powers are explicitly attributed to the of my PhD thesis entitled: state in multilateral instruments, whereby the flag state consents to having its ships subject to the jurisdiction of the port state. Notwithstanding the P THE QUEST FOR UNIVERSALITY IN THE PREVENTION, consensus around the complementary nature of port state jurisdiction ORT with respect to certain obligations of the flag state, the port state is not REDUCTION AND CONTROL OF SHIP-SOURCE POLLUTION UNILATERAL PORT STATE limited to fulfil a secondary role. This is especially visible in the prevention, S JURISDICTION reduction and control of ship-source pollution, where some port states TATE have not hesitated in acting regardless of an expressed consent by the flag state to the rule or standard being applied with the support of port J By Nelson F. Coelho powers. Not only do port states use more stringent enforcement powers URISDICTION to ensure that international treaties are effective, but they also prescribe novel rules and standards upon any foreign ship that approaches the Tuesday 12 February 2019 port, often as a means of breaking an international negotiation deadlock. at 12:45 hours This study discusses the international legal basis for such unilateral jurisdiction by analysing the principles of state jurisdiction under the dichotomy parochial/cosmopolitan. By interpreting the stated and In the Academiegebouw, implicit purposes of port state actions under that dichotomy, this study Utrecht University. proposes that states are finding a legal ground to act based on certain legal functions they fulfil in the international legal order. This argument Domplein 29, 3512 JE puts into perspective the assumed self-sufficiency of territoriality and Utrecht shows how unilateralism may also serve to seek to set universally applicable norms. You are kindly invited to join the reception following the Nelson F. Coelho (1987) has initiated his defence. academic career at the Universidade de Coimbra, in Portugal, where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws, a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, a Master of Laws and Nelson F. Coelho a Postgraduate Certificate in International [email protected] Politics and Conflict Resolution. In 2014 he roamed to Utrecht to become part of a project Coelho Nelson F. on unilateral jurisdiction in international law Paranymphs: (UNIJURIS), specialising in the environmental laws and regulations applicable at port. For Diane Fromage four years he was a doctoral research fellow diane.fromage@ at the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the maastrichtuniversity.nl Sea, during which he visited the International Maritime Organisation and the World Maritime University. Throughout his doctoral research and thereafter, he Hanne Cuyckens has been co-editor of De Maribus, a news blog on the law of the sea. [email protected] Nelson F. Coelho UNILATERAL PORT STATE JURISDICTION THE QUEST FOR UNIVERSALITY IN THE PREVENTION, REDUCTION AND CONTROL OF SHIP-SOURCE POLLUTION UNILATERALE RECHTSMACHT VAN HAVENSTATEN VERKENNING VAN UNIVERSALITEIT IN DE PREVENTIE REDUCTIE EN CONTROLE VAN ZEEVERONTREINIGING DOOR SCHEPEN (met een samenvatting in het Nederlands) PROEFSCHRIFT ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit Utrecht op gezag van de rector magnificus, prof. dr. _________________, ingevolge het besluit van het college voor promoties in het openbaar te verdedigen op _________________________ des _________________________ door Nelson Fernando Coelho geboren op 3 december 1987 te Sèvres, Frankrijk UNILATERAL PORT STATE JURISDICTION THE QUEST FOR UNIVERSALITY IN THE PREVENTION, REDUCTION AND CONTROL OF SHIP-SOURCE POLLUTION UNILATERALE RECHTSMACHT VAN HAVENSTATEN VERKENNING VAN UNIVERSALITEIT IN DE PREVENTIE REDUCTIE EN CONTROLE VAN ZEEVERONTREINIGING DOOR SCHEPEN (met een samenvatting in het Nederlands) PROEFSCHRIFT ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit Utrecht op gezag van de rector magnificus, prof.dr. H.R.B.M. Kummeling, ingevolge het besluit van het college voor promoties in het openbaar te verdedigen op dinsdag 12 februari 2019 des middags te 12.45 uur door Nelson Fernando Coelho Copyright © 2018, N.F. Coelho Cover design and layout: GVO printers & designers B.V., www.gvo.nl geboren op 3 december 1987 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, recording, mechanical, by print or te Sèvres, Frankrijk otherwise without prior written permission from the author. UNILATERAL PORT STATE JURISDICTION THE QUEST FOR UNIVERSALITY IN THE PREVENTION, REDUCTION AND CONTROL OF SHIP-SOURCE POLLUTION UNILATERALE RECHTSMACHT VAN HAVENSTATEN VERKENNING VAN UNIVERSALITEIT IN DE PREVENTIE REDUCTIE EN CONTROLE VAN ZEEVERONTREINIGING DOOR SCHEPEN (met een samenvatting in het Nederlands) PROEFSCHRIFT ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit Utrecht op gezag van de rector magnificus, prof.dr. H.R.B.M. Kummeling, ingevolge het besluit van het college voor promoties in het openbaar te verdedigen op dinsdag 12 februari 2019 des middags te 12.45 uur door Nelson Fernando Coelho Copyright © 2018, N.F. Coelho Cover design and layout: GVO printers & designers B.V., www.gvo.nl geboren op 3 december 1987 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, recording, mechanical, by print or te Sèvres, Frankrijk otherwise without prior written permission from the author. Promotoren: Prof. dr. C.M.J. Ryngaert Prof. dr. S. Trevisanut This thesis was accomplished with financial support from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO-projectnummer: 452-12-002). 4 Promotoren: Prof. dr. C.M.J. Ryngaert Prof. dr. S. Trevisanut This thesis was accomplished with financial support from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO-projectnummer: 452-12-002).