Non-Compliance Mechanisms: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward

This book analyses the functioning of an increasingly important branch of international procedures dealing with the supervision of implementation by States of their obligations under international enviromental treaties. The essays, investigating also the relationship between compliance systems and general international law, as well as European Union Law, answer important questions, such as who are the subjects entitled to set the procedure in motion, how it works and what are the powers of relevant bodies. The book is divided into six sections dealing with non-compliance procedure, both under an institutional and a comparative point of view.