"Resources in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: a Legal Quest for Equity at Sea?"
With Thomas Leclerc, Lecturer in public law, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, UMR AMURE
Abstract : The international legally binding instrument on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement) has been designed and negotiated, for many years, to constitute a coherent legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of living marine resources of the high seas, the seabed and their subsoil beyond the limits of national jurisdiction. This legal framework aims to propose a new series of legal principles and mechanisms whose integration into the pre-existing conventional, normative and institutional environment appears nevertheless complex.

In the context of the ongoing adoption of this BBNJ Agreement, this webinar propose to present and debate legal perspective regarding the regime of exploration and sustainable use of – living or mineral – resources in areas beyond national jurisdiction, in light of equity considerations.