[19] The dispute involves both the delimitation of Canada’s internal waters where they can fully regulate trespassing, and the right of Canada to adopt and enforce laws to prevent pollution from vessels in ice-covered waters.

In the light of the problems related to the need for the safe scrapping of obsolete vessels, what new regulatory initiatives does the Council consider are needed to ensure that EU waters are not used as toxic highways for transporting ‘ghost ships’ for scrappage, and does the Council consider that the Basel Convention banning the export of toxic waste from industrialised countries to developing countries should be amended?

In the light of the problems related to the need for the safe scrapping of obsolete vessels, what new regulatory initiatives does the Council consider are needed to ensure that EU waters are not used as toxic highways for transporting ‘ghost ships’ for scrappage, and does the Council consider that the Basel Convention banning the export of toxic waste from industrialised countries to developing countries should be amended?

By way of example, there is a Decision of the House of Lords of 1958 which had regard to Indian legislation prohibiting jute exports to South Africa in a case concerning a contract governed by English law.

If this bill passes it would prohibit any company or any organization from diverting water from a Canadian river basin into, in this case, an American river basin for export purposes.

On 5 February 2001, Bill C-6, an Act to amend the International Boundary Waters Treaty Act, was introduced in the House of Commons on behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Hon. John Manley (1) The bill would provide for a clearer Act and more effective implementation of the 1909 Treaty relating to Boundary Waters and Questions arising along the Boundary between Canada and the United States (commonly referred to as the Boundary Waters Treaty) by: a) prohibiting the bulk removal of boundary waters from the water basins in which they are located; b) requiring persons to obtain licences from the Minister of Foreign Affairs for wate ...[+++]r-related projects in boundary or transboundary waters that would affect the natural level or flow of waters on the United States side of the border; and c) providing clear sanctions and penalties for violation.