Table of Contents -- Foreword -- List of Abbreviations -- From the Rhodian Sea Law to UNCLOS III -- Non-European Sources of the Law of the Sea -- Port State Control: An Assessment of European Practice -- The Northern Sea Route - Chance or Threat -- The Development of Environmental Standards for the Baltic Sea -- Monitoring Compliance and Enforcement of Compliance through the Helsinki Convention -- Marine Environment Protection - The Baltic Sea Example -- The Baltic Sea Joint Comprehensive Environmental Action Programme -- The Quality Status Report (QSR 2000) for the North East Atlantic -- The Development of Environmental Standards for the North-East Atlantic, including the North Sea -- Monitoring Compliance and Enforcement of Compliance through the OSPAR Commission -- The Mediterranean Marine Environment: Pressures, State of Pollution and Measures Taken (The Barcelona Convention and the Mediterranean Action Plan) -- The Development of the Black Sea Area -- Fishery and sustainability -- Reflagging of Fishing Vessels: Critical Assessment of its Impact on the Enforcement of Fishing Regulations and the Responses thereto -- The Interaction between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea -- The Protection of the Marine Environment against the Impacts of Seabed Mining: An Assessment of the New Mining Code of the International Seabed Authority -- The Deep Sea Floor - New Discoveries and Visions -- The Introduction of Alien or New Species into the Marine Environment: A Challenge for Standard Setting and Enforcement -- German Marine Science - A Case Study -- Is Marine Research an Economic Factor in Europe? -- A European Approach to Ocean Observation -- Towards a European Marine Information Highway -- Ocean and Coastal Zones in Global Programmes and the Ocean 21 Project -- Eco-Economic Management of Coastal Zones.