The EU Council initiated the public debate on the “Blue Belt” pilot project which took place in 2011 and was designed to promote shipping between ports within the EU (“small distance shipping”). The purpose of the “Blue Belt” concept is to create an area of maritime transport without...

Intellectual property law has received a final and official dedication along with the conclusion of the Convention which led to the establishment of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) signed on 14th July 1967, in Stockholm [1]. According to WIPO, Intellectual Property covers...

The analysis of the legal components of the boarding agreement shows that this contract, in fact, is an individual employment contract concluded for a fixed period, with a particular suite of elements determined by very specific of the sailor profession. The individual boarding agreement is an...

In a recent paper, Constantin Tanase appreciates that on maritime and river waterways, i.e. in shipping, smuggling has always found an environment conducive to its development and prosperity. Being a fraud connected to the activities of trade, it is easy to spot "the opportunities" offered to...

From immemorial times people have been concerned with environment protection, certainly on a scale corresponding to the impact of human activities on it, taking into account, from the very beginning, the interest on the health of drinking water sources, where their animals drank and where their...

Professors I. Ceterechi si M. Luburici stated that, in general, a classification of law systems according to the criterion of law is a historic and fundamental classification and it represents the key to understanding the law in its historical evolution. A significant influence on the formation...

The shore or the sea coast, as separation lines between land and sea, is subject to the permanent action of internal factors (tectonic movements and volcanism) and of external factors (processes of erosion, wind, waves, currents, tides, living organisms and humans), issues that complicate their...

According to art. 19 of Law no. 17/1990 regarding the legal status of inland and marine waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone and the exclusive economic zone of Romania, in the territorial sea, the inland and marine waters and ports of Romania, the access of any vessel, which has...

The analysis of the legal components of the boarding agreement shows that this contract, in fact, is an individual employment contract concluded for a fixed period, with a particular suite of elements determined by very specific of the sailor profession. The individual boarding agreement is an...

Commercial practices are practices or rules applicable to contractual relations between the participants to international trade activities. Commercial practices require a determined objective element of a particular practice, attitude or behavior. They are characterized by: continuity,...