RT journal article
T1 Gibraltar, Land Reclamation, the Environment and Brexit
T2 Gibraltar, los rellenos y el medio ambiente ante el Brexit
A1 González García, Inmaculada
A2 Derecho Internacional PúblicoPenal y Procesal
K1 Gibraltar
K1 Brexit
K1 European Union
K1 Disputes
K1 Territorial claims
K1 cross-border cooperation
K1 environmental cooperation
K1 Land reclamation
K1 Withdrawal Treaty
K1 Protocol
K1 Memorandum of Understanding –MoU
K1 maritime zones
K1 Sites of Community Importance –SCI.
K1 Unión Europea
K1 Controversias
K1 reclamaciones territoriales
K1 cooperación transfronteriza
K1 cooperación medioambiental
K1 rellenos
K1 Tratado de Retirada
K1 Protocolo Memorando de Entendimiento- MOU
K1 espacios marítimos
K1 Lugares de Importancia Comunitaria –LIC.
AB The implementation of EU environmental legislation in Gibraltar will be analyzed in this Paper. An study strongly affected by the historical Anglo-Spanish dispute concerning sovereignty over Gibraltar (Rock and Isthmus), which also extends to the surrounding maritime spaces, the airspace over the territory and the internal waters of the port of Gibraltar. Since environmental matters are the responsibility of the Government of Gibraltar, this latter is also responsible for transposing environmental directives, whereas the UK is answerable to the EU for compliance with them.It also will be analyzed the lack of cooperation between the States, that is evidenced by the overlapping of spaces protected surrounding Gibraltar, as Sites of Community Importance (SCI) and Special Areas of Conservation (SAC), for which the adoption of conservation measures is envisaged, including regulation of fishing activity and navigation, environmental impact assessment of projects with transboundary effects that may derive from the practice of land reclamation (in accordance with the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive), pollution prevention, bunkering and scientific research. For several years, these activities have been challenged at the European level bythe NGO ‘Campo de Gibraltar Verdemar-Ecologists in Action Association’, and have also been thesubject of complaints and protests on the part of the Spanish Government to the UK.Finally, the effect of Brexit on marine environment protection and the expansion of maritime spacesaround Gibraltar will be studied, specially the Spanish-British Memorandum of Understanding of2018 on environmental cooperation which was referenced by the Protocol on Gibraltar included inthe Agreement on the Withdrawal of the UK from the EU.
PB Editorial UCA
SN 2444-7382
YR 2019
FD 2019-12-20
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/23225
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/23225
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 08-nov-2026