CRIMINAL LAW, INTERNATIONAL WATERS AND EXTRATERRITORIAL APPLICATION OF THE CRIMINAL LAW
Keywords:
International waters, natural resources, treaties, fishing, illegal fishing, criminal prosecution, criminal jurisdiction, flag of convenience, Antarctic OceanAbstract
The fight against the damage to them natural resources requires efforts of all the States. Different Treated will occupy from it. The efficiency of that fight depends of the firmness in the compliance of those treated, and of the economic exclusion of them States that conducive to and protect its breach through flags of convenience and others classes of protection. The contribution of the criminal justice of each State is essential. Establish limits to the application extraterritorial of the criminal law, against the obligations acquired by treated, contributes to the impunity and promotion of activities that eventually with them resources marine. The use of flags of convenience precludes the respect for the jurisdictional priority of the States that grant them The last criteria of the Spanish Supreme Court are incompatible with international criminal solidarity