Pridonose li Rotterdamska pravila unifikaciji ?
Do the Rotterdam Rules contribute to unification?

Summary/Abstract: The United Nation Convention for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea (Rotterdam Rules) was signed in Rotterdam in September 2009. The aim of this Convention is to unify international law on the carriage of goods. The Rotterdam Rules follow after the Hague Rules and the Hamburg Rules. It is beyond doubt that the Rotterdam Rules take into account modern transactions and the needs of subjects participating in the carriage of goods by sea (e.g. electronic transport records, responsibility of the performing party, right of control, compulsory of the provisions on the liability of both parties etc.). Those rules have occasionally mutatis mutandis shrewdly and compromisingly included the Hague-Visby and Hamburg Rules. The Rules partially regulate multimodal (door to door) transport, too. However, experience calls for caution. New solutions have been known to be obstacles to unification, in particular to the attempt to partly regulate multimodal transport. Apart from that, the Rotterdam Rules are burdened by a large number of regulations. If the ratifications of EU member states begin (I doubt that this will occur soon), it would not hinder the Republic of Croatia from accepting the Rotterdam Rules and incorporating them into their own Maritime Code.

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