Professor Sérvulo Correia is “Ad Hoc” judge at International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

NEWS AND EVENTS 29 Apr 2014

On April 14 procedure no. 19 M/V «Virginia G» (Panama v. Guinea-Bissau), initiated in 2012 at the ITLOS - International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, concluded with the reading out of the judgement.

The ITLOS is a court of the United Nations based in Hamburg and established in 1996. States involved in disputes and which do not have a judge of their own nationality have the right to appoint an ad hoc judge. It was in this context that Professor Sérvulo Correia was nominated by Guinea-Bissau.

Professor Sérvulo Correia voted for various items of the operative part of the judgment, in particular recognizing coastal states the power to regulate bunkering (provision of services by ships to other ships) in the exclusive economic zone. Professor Sérvulo Correia, however, expressed his dissenting opinion on other parts of the decision.

The Judgment of ITLOS, of April 14, 2014, as well as several separate votes of judges, including that of Professor Sérvulo Correia are retrievable from the ITLOS site: www.itlos.org .