The Rijeka Draft of a Convention on the Liability of Operators of Nuclear Ships: A Very Late Requiem

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.30925/zpfsr.40.3.8" target="_blank" >10.30925/zpfsr.40.3.8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Rijeka Draft of a Convention on the Liability of Operators of Nuclear Ships: A Very Late Requiem

Original language description

Sixty years ago, from 20th to 26th September 1959, the Nineteenth Conference of the International Maritime Committee (Comité Maritime International) was held in Rijeka. Facing the challenges arising from contemporary plans to use nuclear power in marine transport (in particular to use nuclear reactors as a source of transport for both civil and military ships), the Conference adopted a draft of a convention that aimed to address the issue of liability of the operators of nuclear ships. The draft convention reflected the fact that liability issues arising from nuclear ships considerably differ from those issues, arising from the operation of land-based nuclear reactors. This draft convention, which became later widely known as &quot;the Rijeka Draft&quot; in legal literature, provided for basic liability principles that were to be applied to operators of nuclear ships. The Rijeka Draft became crucial for the later developments in the field of international nuclear law, in particular for the adoption of the Brussels Convention on the Liability of Nuclear Ships at the Eleventh Session of the Diplomatic Conference on Maritime Law in 1962. However, it also influenced the content of several other bi-lateral agreements. The 60th anniversary of the Rijeka Draft allows a good opportunity to revisit the principles provided by the draft convention as well as to revisit the impact of this draft on further development of international nuclear law.

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci

ISSN

1330-349X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

40

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

HR - CROATIA

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

1153-1170

UT code for WoS article

000522391400008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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