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Case Concerning Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay)

Date
Apr 20, 2010
Source
UNEP, InforMEA
Court name
International Court of Justice (ICJ)
Abstract

On 20 April 2010, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced its highly anticipated judgment in the environmental dispute between Argentina and Uruguay. The dispute arose from the authorization by Uruguay of the CMB1 pulp mill and the actual construction of the Botnia pulp mill2 and its associated facilities on the banks of the River Uruguay, which constitutes an international boundary between the two sovereign States of Argentina and Uruguay

Full text
CIJ_135_2010_Pulp Mills Argentina_Uruguay_EN.pdf
Website
www.icj-cij.org

References

Literature

International court of justice's impact on international environmental law: focusing on the Pulp Mills case

Author: Zhu X., He J.

In: Yearbook of International Environmental Law 2012 | Vol. 23 (1) | p.106-130

Publisher: Oxford University Press | Oxford, UK | 2013

Literature | Argentina, Uruguay

Keyword: Water quality standards, Dispute settlement, Transboundary effects, International agreement-implementation, Soft law

Source: IUCN (ID: ANA-088225)