Law of the public maritime domain and the sea

The EU aims to provide knowledge, without a legal angle, of coastal areas included in the "public maritime domain", and other coastal and offshore maritime areas and to show which legal regimes apply to these areas: ownership of these areas, rules of occupation of these areas, rules of development of these areas. All of this is based on the law of the sea, the law of the coastline and urban planning, and the law of the environment at sea.

The EU allows to apprehend the legal instruments relating to the occupation and the exploitation of the maritime or fluvial public domain, to understand the rules relating to its use and its exploitation. It deals with some urban planning rules intended to regulate construction in coastal areas and environmental law dedicated to coastal areas and maritime facades. It evokes certain regimes for the exploitation of resources (e.g. fisheries, aquaculture production activities) or the protection of natural or artificial environments on the coast (obligations arising from integrated coastal zone management (ICZM), the new question of respecting the carrying capacity, etc.). It provides knowledge on the instruments intended to identify and prevent risks related to the sea. The teaching context is that of French law, completed by aspects of comparative law in order to see how other States deal with these issues.

Final test - Case study.