Author Archives: Gianfranco Puopolo - Gaia Parisi

Recent guidelines issued by the Italian Ministry for Tourism and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport clarify how law provisions on holiday packages interact with those regulating yacht charters. The guidelines are relevant for the yachting industry, because they set the boundaries between maritime brokerage and travel organization. In addition, they have direct consequences for […]

Introduction The EU Directive 2013/53/EU requires that all vessels between 2.5 and 24 meters shall comply with strict standards for stability, safety, structural resistance and environmental impact. Without CE marking, a yacht cannot legally be sold or used in EU waters. Therefore, CE requirements are not only a formality, but a real passport of legality […]

Introduction The regime of temporary admission is commonly used in the yachting industry, because it allows non-EU goods (i.e., yachts flying extra EU flags) to be introduced into the customs territory of the European Union for a limited period of time of eighteen months (the so-called “period of discharge”), with total exemption from import duties […]

Everyone in the yachting industry knows the old adagio in which the best moments in a yacht owner’s life are the day of the purchase of a yacht and the day when the yacht is sold. Buying or building a yacht is certainly a rewarding experience marking a moment of success and happiness in a […]

 Introduction The Captain’s role consists of running the crew, overseeing the technical conditions of the yacht, making sure that the yacht is secure and safe in compliance with the relevant international maritime regulations. In addition, pursuant to article 295 of the Italian Navigation Code and the 2006 Maritime Labor Convention, the Captain is the legal […]

The Council of State, with the recent decision no. 10455 of December 4, 2023, reaffirmed that the state-owned maritime concessions shall be subject to public bids for tenders, as established by EU law and by the predominant EU Court of Justice’s case-law. This principle is also enshrined under article 12 of Directive 2006/123/CE (the so-called […]

Buying a supercar or a full racing track car may be a rather complex procedure that involves controls on many different aspects concerning title, ownership, identity of the vehicle, possible claims and, of course, technical issues. The purchase of a supercar or of a racing car that has previously raced in F1 or other similar […]

Since the early 1990s and until today, the number of disputes regarding the ownership of cultural property has grown exponentially worldwide. In this regard, the greatest plunder of cultural property has been made by the Nazis in the occupied territories between 1935 and 1944. In fact, they stole about 1/5 of all the cultural property […]