A Guarda Nacional Republicana como guarda costeira nacional

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Joaquim Daniel Brito dos
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/111201
• topic: GNR; Guarda costeira,; Mar territorial; Fronteira externa marítima; SIVICC; EUROSUR; Coast guard; Territorial sea; External maritime border; Direito

This research study is part of the Master´s Degree in Law and Security – Nova School of Law at the Nova University in Lisbon, and aims to answer the following question: “Can the Republican National Guard assume itself as national coast guard?". The European Union created the European Border and Coast Guard by joining the Member States' coast guards to Frontex, strengthening the surveillance, control and supervision of the territorial sea and its external maritime border. Considering that Portugal doesn´t have a coast guard, we defined as the object of study the functional and territorial analysis of the Navy, the Maritime Police and the Republican National Guard (GNR), in order to confirm whether the GNR, as a Law Enforcement Agency with responsibilities in the maritime domain, has the capacity to assume itself as the national coast guard. To this end, we have defined the functions usually performed by coast guards, starting by analysing the genesis of the maritime service in Portugal and, subsequently, the framework of the coast guard functions. After this, we addressed the Maritime Authority System, which currently has powers of maritime authority, and moved on to describe the Navy, the Maritime Police and the GNR, analysing its legal framework, specific jurisdiction within the missions of surveillance, control and supervision of the territorial sea and the external maritime border. We, then, addressed some of the technological systems for surveillance and control of the coast, the territorial sea and the external maritime border, describing each of them and analysing their objective and capabilities. Finally, we concluded that the GNR has capabilities and competences that enables it to assume the role of national coast guard.