Critical Analysis of the Law 14/2014 on Maritime Navigation

Abstract

The recently passed law 14/2014 on Maritime Navigation is the most important source of regulation on this subject in Spanish law. Despite the positive impulse that this law implies in terms of a badly needed simplification and rationalization in a so far disperse and incoherent body of regulation, the approach taken by the legislator will nonetheless let down those expecting an improvement also in the technical quality of the law. In this short analysis, the authors review some of the most relevant elements of the new law and point at the main hurdles that practitioners and academics might find in its application.