Marine scientific research has not lost any of its significance for the world of today and might become even more important for the future as the knowledge in this area will be crucial for management decisions in most areas of human life. Lithuania being the coastal state should be strongly motivated to create favourable conditions for carrying out MSR. The provisions of Part XIII, 1982 UNCLOS, set out specific rights and obligations for coastal and researching States and provide guidelines on how these rights and obligations should be implemented through negotiated access by foreign research vessels into the maritime zones under coastal State sovereign rights and jurisdiction. However, there is no evidence of successful UNCLOS implementation into national law of the Republic of Lithuania. The MSR regime remains nominal for lack of practical implementation. Though the UNCLOS is considered to represent the predominant international MSR regime, there are still provisions requiring a liberal interpretation, which could be enabled both by States enacting appropriate formulations and procedures in their national legislation and by commissions and international organizations developing guidelines and standardized procedures. The study has been structured in three parts which are further outlined in chapters representing the most relevant issues of the topic under discussion. Part 1 explores the historical development of marine science regulation indicating the origin and... [to full text]

The summary provided hereunder gives short overview of final thesis. The summary outlines the subject matter, aim and goals of the thesis. In addition it shortly describes the content and main aspects of this final work. The subject matter of this thesis is – individual constitutional complaint as an effective domestic remedy under Article 13 of the Convention for Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (hereinafter – the European Convention on Human Rights). The thesis is aimed at the evaluation of the individual constitutional complaint as an effective domestic remedy. This final work deals with the meaning, aim and scope of Article 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights; the nature of the remedies required under Article 13; the similarities and differences of the institution of constitutional complaint, which exists in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, this analysis is being made with special regard to the rules on standing of individuals (the complainants, admissibility criteria, etc.) and the legal effect of the Constitutional Court’s final decision; the optimal model of the individual constitutional complaint suitable for Lithuania is being analyzed. The thesis stresses that there is no single answer, whether the constitutional complaint can be considered an effective domestic remedy under article 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The thesis states that so far the European Court of Human Rights analyzed the effectiveness of the... [to full text]