Marine Pollution Caused by Ships: The Role of International Legal for Controlling Marine Pollution in Vietnam

Abstract

International laws of pollution caused by ships at sea is understood as the overall of international principles and legal norms to prevent and remedy the consequences when pollution occur. International conventions are one of the basic and important sources of modern international laws. International conventions are agreements between subjects, and mainly between countries, on a basis of voluntary, equal to impose, change or termination of rights and obligations to each other. The system of modern international law has formed the legal regulatory stipulates for prevention of oil pollution from ships at sea by a series of bilateral and multilateral treaties. Some treaties stipulate common legal framework for addressing the marine pollution issues, some treaties have specific provisions to regulate the issues related to marine pollution. Author would like to assess the role of international conventions on the prevention of marine pollution causing by ships in Vietnam, especially ship’s oil pollution.