Abstract
This introductory report reviews the legal aspects of the feasibility of the proposed fixed link across the Strait of Gibraltar connecting Spain and Morocco. Written in the spirit of the third international colloquium (Marrakech, 1990) and drawing on nearly a decade of pre-feasibility studies, the author presents the methodology adopted by the Spanish-Moroccan legal working group established under the 1980 cooperation agreement. The analysis situates the project within its geopolitical context — the meeting point of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic and of two regional groupings (the EEC and the Arab Maghreb Union) — and addresses the central question of the project's lawfulness under the international navigation regimes of the Strait ("innocent passage" versus "free transit"), clarified by the 1982 Montego Bay Convention on the Law of the Sea. It evaluates the technical variants (tunnel, suspension bridge, dyke) against these regimes, and discusses the internal and international legal modalities for promoting the project, concluding with the new 1989 agreement.
Recommended Citation
Ahmady, Abdelhamid
(1990)
"Legal Aspects of the Feasibility of the Fixed Link Project — Introductory Report,"
Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management): Vol. 9:
Iss.
2, Article 12.
https://doi.org/10.66499/2665-7112.1640
Available at:
https://scholarhub.univh2c.ma/remadeg/vol9/iss2/12
DOI
10.66499/2665-7112.1640