ENFORCEMENT ON THE AIRCRAFT

DE LEGE LATA AND SOLUTIONS DE LEGE FERENDA

Authors

  • Dean Vuleta Tennis Academy Stobreč

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30925/zpfsr.42.3.13

Keywords:

aircraft; air privileges; jurisdiction of the enforcement court; enforcement proceeding; proposal’s supplement to the provisions.

Abstract

The provisions of Articles 167-175 of the Law on Obligations and Real Property Relations in Air Transport on the Enforcement Procedure on Aircraft are an indication that in practice it would be difficult to carry out a transparent and efficient coercive procedure for settling creditors’ claims on aircraft. The reason for this is incomplete or non-existent provisions on: pledge claims on the aircraft that have priority in settlement, competencies and powers of the enforcement court, submission of proposals for enforcement and issuance of enforcement decisions, enforcement costs that must be borne by the bailiff, temporary measures on individual aircraft enforcement actions during the execution on the aircraft. Article 175 of the Law on Obligations and Real Property Relations in Air Transport states that in the enforcement procedure on an aircraft, the provisions of Art. 867-988 of the Maritime Code on the enforcement sale of a ship, i.e. the provisions on determining the value of a ship (Article 867) and on further actions related to the enforcement and insurance of claims on a ship. However, this only partially fills the legal gaps in the enforcement part of the Law on Obligations and Real Property Relations in Air Transport. The provisions regulating previous enforcement actions in the implementation of enforcement on an aircraft that need to be carried out until the value of the aircraft is determined have not been adequately established. These actions are crucial in directing the further course of the enforcement proceedings. Therefore, the intention of the research is focused on the analytical presentation of the problematic regulation of such previous actions in the implementation of enforcement on the aircraft according to the provisions of the Law on Obligations and Real Property Relations in Air Transport. Proposals delege ferenda should be a guide in supplementing the existing provisions on the enforceable sale of aircraft, with some analogous solutions of the Maritime Code on Enforcement of Ships and the comparative law on the enforceable sale of aircraft should be the legal basis.

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Published

2022-02-16 — Updated on 2023-12-15

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How to Cite

Vuleta, D. (2023). ENFORCEMENT ON THE AIRCRAFT: DE LEGE LATA AND SOLUTIONS DE LEGE FERENDA . Collected Papers of the Law Faculty of the University of Rijeka, 42(3), 837–853. https://doi.org/10.30925/zpfsr.42.3.13 (Original work published February 16, 2022)