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The United Nation convention for the international carriage of goods wholly or partly by sea – the Rotterdam Rules – the analysizis of structural convention and contents of its crucial regulations

The United Nation Convention for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea (known as the Rotterdam Rules) is the newest international convention which unifies and moderates the legal regime governing the international carriage of goods by sea. The Rotterdam Rules accept all elements of the new transportation practice, such as: container carriage, transportation door to door contracts, electronic business (e-business), new and modern approach to transport documents, determining the responsibilities of the performing party and the controlling party, detail development, not only, the obligation and responsibility of the carrier, but also the mandatory rules about the obligations and responsibilities of the shipper. Also, the most important mark of the Rotterdam Rules is to try to enable the use of unified system of responsibilities to carrying contracts and for those carrying branches that precede or subsequent to sea carriage. The integration of the contract of transportation „door to door“ in the scope of application of the Convention is one of the most important, but, at the same time, the most criticized solution. The Rotterdam Rules are not jet enter into force, but its regulations are the subject of very intensive dispute in scientific and professional circles all around the world. The countries consider and analyze the answer to the question if they would bind themselves with the Rotterdam Rules. If this Convention was put into force and started to be used, it would significantly change the legal regulation of obligations, responsibilities and other important questions connected to the mater of contracts for the international carriage of goods. In this paper are determined, studied and interpreted the key regulations of the Rotterdam Rules. The authors analyze the structure of Convention and carefully determine the contents and the range of the most important regulations. They particularly emphasize the news in relation to the Hague Rules, which is the most accepted convention that, today, regulates the carriage of goods by sea on the international level.

the Rotterdam Rules; carriage of goods by sea; multimodal transport; harmonization and unification of the international transport law

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