Review article
https://doi.org/10.31141/zrpfs.2021.58.141.875
From the anthology of technological law: autonomous ship and other advanced objects in the new maritime code - de lege ponderanda
Moreno Pajković
orcid.org/0000-0002-6025-725X
Abstract
With the aim of making the Croatian flag attractive to foreign vessels, the Croatian legislator passed on February 8, 2019, a decision on the promulgation of the Act on Amendments to the Maritime Code as part of the Maritime Legislative Reform Package. In addition to amendments related to vessel registration, in particular its digitization and the unification of its data, the amendments include a statutory standardization of the yacht and recreational boat charter contracts, as well as solutions related to the prevention of pollution of the sea. The amendments include changes in the field of maritime labour law as well. However, the amendments also include certain changes to the maritime-legal nomenclature, including therein the introduction of a new legal category – the autonomous waterborne object. The aim of this paper is therefore to analyse the position of such an object within the current maritime legal system of the Republic of Croatia and to consider a further trend in view of de lege ferenda, especially when autonomous ships are concerned. The paper also examines whether or not did the introduction of the new legal category in the Croatian Maritime Code directly and openly recognised autonomous ships and to what extent. In addition to this, the paper offers a new (additional) classification with regards to technological advances and trends. The recommendation offered thereat is built directly upon the existing maritime-legal nomenclature providing likewise a suitable nomotechnical solution in regulating the new types of objects in general, without substantially interfering in the existing content of the Croatian Maritime Code as originally conceptualized.
Keywords
autonomous waterborne object; Croatian Maritime Code; autonomous ship; advanced maritime objects; autonomous merchant shipping; technology law; maritime-legal nomenclature
Hrčak ID:
262223
URI
Publication date:
7.9.2021.
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