Instructors:
Dr. Kai-Dieter Classen
Displayed in timetable as:
Europ. SeehafenR
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
- | -
Comments/contents:
Ports are the focal points of worldwide logistic chains, the entry- and exit-gates of national economies as well as whole economic areas in globalized trade and inevitable pre-condition for the maritime economy. They are highly complex agglomerations of infrastructure and home to a huge variety of companies at the interface of land and water. Ports constitute a functional unit, however, the term “port” suggests a concreteness of the object under scrutiny that does not exist. In fact, at closer inspection a port dissolves into a multiplicity of independent, yet functionally interacting stakeholders – depending on the port governance model and the level of liberalization.
The EU Port Law, which can be derived from the "functional unit port", is made up of various fragments of the application of general provisions as well as specific regulation The aim of the lecture "European Seaports Law" is to bring together the main cases of application and the relevant regulations, to present them in an overall context and to relate them to each other. In this way clear outlines of a European Seaports Law with its references to International Law as well as to the member-states' legal systems can be worked out.
The lecture gives a general overview of seaports, their structures, actors and functions. Further modules are devoted to the application of primary law policies to ports. This practice sets the framework for port-specific secondary legislation in many respects. The lecture is rounded off by a cursory presentation of other port-related secondary legislation. As a conclusion, a professionally guided port cruise is scheduled. The lecture thus serves on the one hand to deepen specific areas of European Law. On the other hand, it wants to explain the port as the starting point and endpoint of the maritime transport chain in its complexity and mode of operation.
