Considerations regarding legal liability for marine pollution

Abstract

Environmental pollution has become a global phenomenon. In this context, the protection of the marine environment is achieved by means of multilateral and regional legal mechanisms and instruments, which aim to coordinate the activity of the states within the conferences and international bodies that take place in order to combat and sanction the pollution of the marine environment. The legal liability in the matter of marine environment pollution will fall on the polluter, guilty of damaging the environmental factors, but also on the responsibility of any natural or legal person who, although he does not cause environmental pollution, through his actions violates environmental legislation. Civil liability or criminal liability do not exclude the administrative liability and disciplinary liability of the crew members of a ship, who, through their functions on board, contribute to the safety of navigation and the ship.