Environmental standard for stevedores

• Филичева Татьяна Петровна

  Tatyana P. Philicheva Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service. Vladivostok. Russia

Abstract. The national environmental legislation does not disclose which requirements of regulatory and supervisory authorities, as well as industry rules and regulations in the field of environmental protection, the lessee-stevedore is obliged to comply with when carrying out open transshipment of dangerous goods (coal, chemicals) at the seaport, and which environmental permits he must receive. The lease agreement
between the stevedores and the seaport directorate provides for the obligation to comply with the requirements of the internal port regulations, the orders of regulatory authorities in the seaport. However, there are no environmental requirements among many rules governing various aspects of the stevedore's activities. They are usually the subject of additional agreements, which, in case of non-fulfillment, serve as
grounds for early termination of the lease agreement by a court decision. However, the additional agreements do not disclose which environmental requirements the stevedore must comply with and are more a formality not a guide to execution. The format of a local legal act, which would prescribe uniform environmental requirements for the transshipment of dangerous goods at the seaport, and become a mandatory
annex to the lease agreement, could be an environmental standard developed in any form, but approved by all parties to the lease agreement. The Environmental Standard can be used as a regulatory, methodological and reference document for the effective provision of environmental requirements in the seaport. It can establish model rules, unifying the approach to the acceptance of additional environmental conditions by
tenants under the Lease Agreement, fixing the environmental aspects of each stage in the process of transshipment of dangerous goods at the seaport.
Keywords: stevedores, lessee, lessor, transshipment of dangerous goods at the seaport, environmental aspects, criteria, environmental impact, identification, significance criteria, responsibility.