Slovenia to start implementing arbitration award on Saturday

Most laws adopted specifically for the purposes of the implementation of the arbitration award have already been passed, while the missing regulations, which deal with fisheries, are expected to be published in the Official Gazette today and enter into force on Saturday.

Slovenia considers the implementation of the arbitration tribunal's award an obligation under international law and has tried, unsuccessfully, to convince Croatia to participate in the implementation.

Croatia, which insists the arbitration procedure was compromised beyond repair despite the tribunal deciding it was not, has rejected the award and does not plan to implement it.

Slovenia has thus decided to go it alone; the way it plans to go about implementation is by asserting all aspects of sovereignty over its territory, whereby there are significant differences between the land and sea...