Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/9e31lhnk3m
The Recovery and Removal of Wrecks and Sunken Objects Pursuant to the Draft Amendments to the Croatian Maritime Code of 2018
Vesna Skorupan Wolff
orcid.org/0000-0002-1591-7247
; Jadranski zavod HAZU, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The amendments to the Croatian Maritime Code of 2013 stipulate in a systematic and integral manner the legal concept of the recovery and removal of wrecks and sunken objects. The application of legal provisions during the five-year-long practice has shown the shortcomings and inadequacies of certain legal solutions. Additionally, as a followup to Croatia having become a party to the International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks, Nairobi, 2007 (WRC), integral implementation of the WRC into the Croatian Maritime Code is needed. Draft amendments to the Croatian Maritime Code have been drawn up due to the aforementioned reasons. The objective of this paper is to present and explain the proposed amendments to the Croatian Maritime Code concerning the recovery and removal of wrecks and sunken objects, as well as to offer explanations as to the aim and effect of every single amendment. The author has concluded that the new legal propositions present an improvement of the existing legal solutions. She believes that the amended provisions, once they enter into force, will provide an appropriate legal framework for a more efficient treatment of wrecks and sunken objects.
Keywords
Croatian Maritime Code; International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks, Nairobi, 2007 (WRC); recovery; removal; wreck; sunken object
Hrčak ID:
222271
URI
Publication date:
28.6.2019.
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