AGENDA-21 AND PREVENTION OF SEA-BASED MARINE POLLUTION - A SPURIOUS RELATIONSHIP

This article discusses some of the tasks States are confronted with in implementing Agenda 21's paragraphs on sea-based marine pollution. As regards substantive issues, Agenda 21 does not add very much to what has been happening anyway. In other respects the imperatives of Agenda 21 cannot simply be ignored. The policy of IMO and most conventions a dministered by it should be readjusted in view of the imperatives of A genda 21, in particular with regard to the integration of developing S tates in the regime and the improvement of the enforcement of the regi me for sea-based marine pollution.