ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the European Union's (EU's) possible role in the development of the Arctic marine environmental governance. It focuses on the role that the EU is playing in respect to filling out gaps in regional environmental law by the use of its 'internal' regulatory power, as well the use of its competence as an 'international personality' developing standards and principles with effects inside and outside the territorial jurisdiction of the EU. The chapter also focuses on the importance of the Treaty of Lisbon and the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA) – both of which are distinct legal orders in their own right. It explains the special question of Danish competences in the Greenlandic marine areas and on the relevance of this to the EU's role in the Arctic governance of maritime activities. Norway is examined as the EEA/EFTA member state most relevant to the EU's role in Arctic maritime governance.
