유해물질 사고 예방과 대응을 위한 경찰 조직및 기능 수행체계에 관한 정책적 함의- 해양환경관리와 해양조사 현황을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The responsibility for marine pollution control in Korea is now scattered among the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, the National Maritime Police Agency, municipalities, and the Korea Marine Environment Management Corporation, which raises the problem of inefficient management and enforcement of the responsibility. Also, the registration of the marine environment management business is supervised separately by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and the National Maritime Police Agency, which causes administrative confusion, inconvenience to the public, and the waste of personal and material resources of the nation. A similar problem of inefficient administration exists in the guidance and supervision of the Korea Marine Environment Management Corporation since the responsibilities are shared by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the National Maritime Police Agency. The separation of the responsibility for marine pollution control creates many problems such as undermining the comprehensive protection of marine environment and making it difficult to respond to pollution incidents properly and consistently. Even the field of maritime survey has a limitation in that the Korea Hydrographic and Oceangraphic Administration does not carry out its survey activities timely and continuously, which puts the maritime safety in danger. With these in mind, this study aims to review the problems of the current marine environment management system and maritime survey, and discuss how to reconstruct the system to solve those problems with hints from overseas cases. In order to do that, it looks through the related literature and news articles to analyzes the situation of each individual organization in charge of marine environment or maritime survey, communications among them, and exemplary overseas cases to draw policy implications and discuss the possibility of benchmarking them.