Resumen de The legal status of the port state within the European Union. Comparative and jurisprudential aspects.

Dimitris Liakopoulos

• The present work is based on the analysis of the legal regime of the port according to the rules of the European Union compared to those of international law with a comparative method to all "subjects" that include the law of the sea and the protection of the global marine environment. In the Geneva Conventions on the Law of the Sea of 1958, the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea provided a definition of the "port State". The analysis will not concern the legal status of the port State in a context of international conlict, regardless of whether foreign ships are involved in hostilities or otherwise neutral, nor on issues related to the possible international responsibility of the declining state from the violation of international obligations by the competent internal port authorities. The complex issue relating to the liberalization of the port services market and therefore to the applicable competition law in the European Union does not pertain to this issue.