Environmental Law for the Black Sea Region

This paper comments the characteristics of the environmental legal protection of the Black Sea (BS) region. In its first part, we shall examine the different characteristics of regional legal approaches all over the world dealing with environmental protection of semi-enclosed or closed seas. Subsequently, we will focus our attention on the environmental protection of the BS region, analysing first the main features of the BS regional co-operation in marine environmental affairs and second the environmental legal protection of the BS region