Author Archives: Gianfranco Puopolo

In the case of the employment of an EU seafarer, are the shipowner and seafarer free to choose the law regulating the contract? Yes. As a general principle, in the case of the employment of a seafarer, the owner and the seafarer are free to choose the law regulating the contract. Indeed, the international employment […]

Introduction  The continuing evolution of technology over the past decades has brought about momentous changes in every area of life. From the economy, to culture, to personal relationships everything seems to have been absorbed by it, and crime is no exception to this change, indeed it evolves by adapting. In fact, criminal infiltration emerges in […]

The Italian Finance and Industry Commission at the Senate has expressed a favorable opinion to an important amendment to the “Law Decree Ucraina”,  which will allow extra -Schengen seafarers to remain embarked onboard yachts and ships for more than 90 days. The problem of the 90 days time – limit (the so-called 90/180 days rule) […]

Ships are often moored for a long – term in ports or shipyards, while seafarers are regularly on-board to carry out their tasks. Up to 2020, extra-Schengen seafarers were regularly signed on with long-term moored ships where they could remain for the entire duration of their employment agreement. Indeed, a common practice all over Europe […]

The Italian Revenue Agency – Agenzia delle Entrate (“AE”) was recently asked to clarify the customs and VAT obligations to be fulfilled by a British-flagged yacht sailing in Italian territorial waters after the United Kingdom became a non-EU state on 1 January 2021 following the so-called Brexit. In its “Risposta” No 26 of 2022, the […]

On January 8, 2021, the luxury yacht “Blanca” of fifty meters length, flying the British flag, built-in 2008 by Baglietto Shipyard, was confiscated by the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) off the coast of Genoa, Italy. The owner of the yacht, a well-known Italian entrepreneur and owner of a concrete manufacturing company and of […]

On 16 September 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union has decided on case no. C-341/20. With this, the EU Court has stated the infringement of Article 14, paragraph 1, letter c) of the Directive no. 2003/96/EC restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity by the Italian State. […]