ABSTRACT
A dispute in international law is defined as a disagreement on a question of law or fact, with opposing legal positions or interests between the parties (since the Mavrommatis Palestine Concessions case, Greece v. U.K., 1924 P.C.I.J.; Preah Vihear, Cambodia v. Thailand, 1962 ICJ). In international law, the subjects of the dispute are states and, in the case of a maritime dispute, the subject matter of the dispute is related to the sea. In the case of Poland, apart from the dispute over the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone south of the Danish island of Bornholm, which ended in 2018 and lasted for 40 years since 1978, the other two have direct causes in the 1945 decisions and are still unsolved. Considering the current object of dispute, the dispute over navigation in the Piławska Strait and Vistula Lagoon has been ongoing since 1990 (34 years) and over the status of roadstead in the Pomeranian Bight since 1994 (30 years).
