THE CONSTITUTIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF COMPETENCES, MARITIME ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND GENERAL WAREHOUSES

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to show interested parties that it is not possible to clearly analyze the current legal regulation of maritime aspects without knowing the evolution of the concept of sovereignty.The word sovereignty only began to form at the dawn of the Modern Era, when real power began to occupy the political space previously dominated by feudal lords, being unknown in Greco-Roman antiquity and the High Middle Ages. On the other hand, also clarify the topic of the Constitutional Division of Competences – Maritime Environmental Law or Environmental Maritime Law, whose Federal Supreme Court had the opportunity to define the important issue. Related to the constitutional distribution of legislative powers between the Union and Member States, based on the material analysis of the content of state legislation predominantly dealing with maritime law or environmental protection. At the same time, it is important to bring and address the aspects of limiting liability in maritime law, as well as the need for its modernization, and also the aggregation of the figure of General Warehouses, with its special prerogatives to support foreign trade infrastructure to eliminate logistical bottlenecks in the regional and local regions of Brazilian Ports.

Keywords: maritime law; modernization; general warehouses; warrant; environmental.