Piran Bay
| Piran Bay (Piranski zaliv / Savudrijska vala) | ||
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 Piran seen from the bay |
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| Waters | the Adrian Sea | |
| Land mass | Southern Europe | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 30 '16 " N , 13 ° 33' 43" E | |
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| surface | 19 km² | |
| Tributaries | Dragonja | |
 Overview of the border dispute in the Bay of Piran |
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The Bay of Piran (German also Golf von Piran ; Slovenian Piranski zaliv , Croatian Piranski zaljev or Savudrijska vala , Italian Baia di Pirano ) is located in the northern part of the Adriatic Sea and is part of the southernmost tip of the Gulf of Trieste .
Name, geography and history
The bay was named after the city of Piran , and its coasts are shared by Croatia and Slovenia . It is bounded by a line that connects Cape Savudrija near Savudrija in the south with Cape Madona near Piran in the north and covers about 19 square kilometers. The name Bay of Savudrija ( Savudrijska vala ) has also been used in Croatia since the 1990s .
At the eastern end of the bay is the city of Piran and the settlements of Portorož and Lucija . On the southern Croatian coast are the tourist resorts of Crveni Vrh and Kanegra , which were only built in the 1980s. The main river that flows into the bay is the Dragonja . Along the mouth of the Dragonja are the Sečovlje salt pans with an area of 650 hectares .
Border disputes
A conflict broke out around the bay of Piran between Slovenia and Croatia over the course of the common border between the two countries. An international court of arbitration set up by Croatia and Slovenia with the participation of the European Union in 2009 awarded around three quarters of the bay of Slovenia on June 29, 2017. It also decreed that a corridor should be planned between Croatian and Italian territorial waters , so that Slovenia is guaranteed access to the international waters of the Adriatic. Croatia refused this award because, according to the Croatian view, the mandate of the arbitral tribunal has expired as a result of an indiscretion in favor of Slovenia. Croatia had claimed half of the bay for itself. After the corresponding arbitration decision, Slovenia redrawn the sea border in the bay on December 30, 2017. Both countries increased the number of police forces in the region to enforce their respective positions.
Slovenia filed a complaint with the European Commission in mid-March 2018 and requested formal infringement proceedings because Croatia did not comply with the decision of the arbitral tribunal. The European Court of Justice , which Slovenia had appealed to , declared itself inconsistent in 2020.
See also
literature
- Darja Mihelič: The Bay of Piran: Fishing and sovereign rights on the Slovenian-Croatian sea border , Klagenfurt 2012. Wieser Verlag, ISBN 978-3-99029-043-9
Web links
- Weather conditions in the bay of Piran , website of the Slovenian government.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Judgment passed, consequences uncertain . In: ORF.at Online, June 29, 2017.
- ^ Karl-Peter Schwarz: Border conflict threatens to escalate. Arbitration in the Slovenian-Croatian water dispute . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 30, 2017, p. 17.
- ^ Border conflict: Slovenia and Croatia are fighting over Adriatic Bay . In: Spiegel Online, December 30, 2017.
- ^ Marine Strauss: EU court will not intervene in Croatia-Slovenia border dispute . In: Thomson Reuters (ed.): Reuters . January 31, 2020 ( reuters.com [accessed April 20, 2020]).