Planning on law: Fair and just in the division of benefits. The case of genetic resources in the high seas (water column)
| Autor | Sergio Peña Neira |
| Cargo | Doctor de la International University of Andalucía |
| Páginas | 227-253 |
Revista Derecho del Estado n.º 41, julio-diciembre de 2018, pp. 227-253
SERGIO PEÑA NEIRA*
Planning on law: Fair and just
in the division of benefits. The case
of genetic resources in the high seas
(water column)**
Planificación jurídica: equidad y justicia
en la división de beneficios.
El caso de los recursos genéticos
en alta mar (columna de agua)
ABSTRACT
How to define sharing benefits from Marine Genetic Resources in the High
Seas (water column) as equitable and just? Supposedly, the United Nations
Convention on the Law of the Sea, international custom and the Convention
on Biological Diversity do not rule Marine Genetic Resources in the High
Seas as far as sharing benefits is concerned. The basic feature of international
law and its sub-disciplines (of environment, investment, conflict resolution),
subjects, and objects has to do with its content whatever the validity from
international law as such or national law and the content based on sense
and limits by interpretation and application (internationally and nationally).
Interpreting international legal rules is only possible utilizing the elements
established by international law, one is the systematically interpretation
considering all and certain legal rules as foundations of the international
legal system.
* Doctor de la International University of Andalucía; llm y ema de la University of
Amsterdam y certificado por la University of Heidelberg. Profesor asociado de la Universidad
Mayor, Santiago de Chile. Brandon Fellow, Lauterpacht Center for International Law, University
of Cambridge (2017-2018) y visiting researcher del Transnational Law Institute, Kings College,
London. Legal Research Fellow, Center for International Sustainable Development, MGill
University-Cambridge University. (Santiago, Chile). Contacto: sergio.penaneira@gmail.com
** This article was presented at Lauterpacht Center for International Law of the University
of Cambridge in January 2018. Earlier version presented at the Annual Meeting of the Latin
American Society of International Law, September, 2016, Santiago de Chile.
Recibido el 31 de marzo de 2017, aprobado el 15 de febrero de 2018.
Para citar el artículo: peña neira, S. Planning on law: Fair and just in the division of be-
nefits. The case of genetic resources in the high seas (water column). Revista Derecho del Estado,
Universidad Externado de Colombia. N.º 41, julio-diciembre de 2018, pp. 227-253.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18601/01229893.n41.09
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KEYWORDS
Marine genetic resources, equity, justice, benefit sharing, lack of rules, water
column.
RESUMEN
¿Cómo definir la división de beneficios de Recursos genéticos marinos en
el alta mar (columna de agua) como equitativa y justa? Supuestamente, la
internacional y el Convenio sobre Diversidad Biológica no regulan la división
de beneficios de recursos genéticos marinos en alta mar. La característica
fundamental del derecho internacional y sus sub disciplinas (de medio am-
biente, inversión, resolución de conflictos), sus sujetos y sus objetos tiene
que ver con su contenido, cualquiera sea la validez del derecho internacional
como tal, o derecho nacional y el contenido fundamental acerca de sentidos
y límites por interpretación y aplicación (internacional y nacional). La inter-
pretación de normas legales internacionales es posible tan solo usando los
elementos establecidos por el derecho internacional, uno de los cuales es la
interpretación sistemática, que considera todas las normas legales que son
fundamento del sistema legal internacional.
PALABRAS CLAVE
Recursos genéticos marinos, equidad, justicia, división de beneficios, laguna
normativa, columna de agua.
SUMARIO
Introduction. 1. Sharing benefits under sovereignty. 2. Lack of regulation:
sharing benefits equitably and just from mgr in hss. Conclusion. References.
INTRODUCTION
Have been enacted rules in International Law answering who owns what and
gets what and how equitably and just when sharing benefits from Marine
Genetic Resources (mgrs) in High Seas (HS): “water column”1? No discus-
sions have been held on the possible legal rules related to mgrs above this
1 Others call this zone “twilight zone”, “mesopelagic” when they are referring to a zone
between 200m to 1000m. This zone is “poorly understood” and it is a key zone due to the car-
bon cycle and biological resources; cfr. wyss Institute. Robotic exploration and sampling of the
Midwater Ocean. Boston: University of Harvard, 2017. Available at: https://wyss.harvard.edu/
event/robotic-exploration-and-sampling-of-the-midwater-ocean/ (14.2.2017).
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