Lloyd's Law Reporter
KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS V RUSSIAN FEDERATION (THE "ARCTIC SUNRISE")
2013 Case 22, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, 22 November 2013
Law of the Sea - Boarding and detention of vessel - Detention of persons on board - Request for the prescription of provisional measures - United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982, article 290
This was a request for preliminary measures in advance of
the constitution of an arbitration tribunal under Annex VII UNCLOS over the
boarding and detention of the vessel Arctic
Sunrise by the authorities of the Russian Federation ("Russia") in the
Russian Exclusive Economic Zone ("EEZ"). The Kingdom of the Netherlands ("the
Netherlands") requested provisional measures. Russia was not participating in
the proceedings.