Maritime Safety in Europe

The book is concerned with the harmonisation of maritime safety legal systems in Europe. It describes maritime safety legal systems in selected European countries as well as maritime safety issues from the perspective of the International Maritime Organisation, European Union, and European Free Trade Association. Distinguished scholars from Europe's leading maritime law academic centres present national perspectives of maritime safety systems, questioning whether the adopted national solutions guarantee the compatibility with IMO and EU legal regime, as well as assessing the global and EU system. Moreover, the book seeks to provide some answers as to whether the IMO goals on maritime safety are adequate in light of current safety challenges and how to achieve higher level of enforcement of internationally-recognised maritime safety standards. It will be of great assistance to those readers who need to familiarize themselves with current problems inherent in maritime safety, whether that be lawyers, scholars, professional mariners, or national institutions. Chapter 14 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

DR JUSTYNA NAWROT is an assistant professor in Maritime Law Department, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Gdansk, where she teaches maritime law. DR ZUZANNA PEPLOWSKA-DABROWSKA is an assistant professor at the Commercial and Maritime Law Department of the Law and Administration Faculty at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun.

1. Implementation of IMO treaties into the domestic legislation. Implementation and enforcement as the key to effectiveness of international treaties; 2. The EU Maritime Safety Rules: Raising the Bar within Europe and Beyond; 3. Maritime safety from the perspective of the EEA EFTA countries; 4. Maritime safety in Belgium - An Overview of the Legal Framework; 5. Maritime Safety - Croatian Legal Framework; 6. French rules concerning maritime safety and security; 7. German Maritime Safety laws: Comprehensive but Complicated 8. Brief reflections on the regulation and implementation of maritime safety in the U.K.; 9. Maritime Safety - Greece; 10. The Italian legal framework on maritime safety: recent developments and future perspectives; 11. An overview of the maritime safety laws in Malta; 12. Comparative maritime safety - Netherlands; 13. Norway - playing it safe; 14. Taking maritime safety seriously - the Polish perspective; 15. Maritime safety and security in Spain; 16. Maritime safety in Turkey