Shipping ports

Ordinance on the discharge of ship waste and cargo residues in seaports

Lower Saxony Port regulations

Lower Saxony Port Security Act

Implementation in Lower Saxony of the Wasserhaushaltsgesetz (WHG) itself implementing the Water Framework Directive. Especially the § 72 on the maintenance of ports, landing and transhipment point

Ordinance on competences in the field of water law [§ 1 - Responsibility of the state company for water management, coastal and nature conservation]

Ordinance on responsibilities in the field of nature conservation and landscape management [§ 3 State agency for water management, coastal and nature protection, Biosphere Reserve Administration]

Regulation on use of sulfur-containing marine fuels in seaports

Regulation on background checks according to Lower Saxony Harbor Security Act

Ordinance on responsibilities in the field of transport (Authorization for traffic)

Regulation on the spatial planning program of Lower Saxony (LROP-VO)

Law amending the Lower Saxony Implementation Act to the Federal Nature Conservation Act and other laws on nature conservation law. Special protection purposes of single core zones were updated (e.g. grey seal). The zonation maps were revised, updated and adapted to the change of the nautical chart.

Law regarding the agreement on a joint supervisory and monitoring authority for elevator systems in the area of Maritime shipping

State Ordinance regarding seismic work. § 24 regarding the storage and safekeeping of explosives on ships and radiotelephone connections

Law regarding the protection of the Wadden Sea National Park in Schleswig-Holstein. It is the most important basis for the protection Wadden Sea in Schleswig-Holstein

Law regarding the improvement of security in the Schleswig-Holstein ports (Port Security Act)

Law for the protection of Nature. With this law, regulations are made that supplement the BNatSchG (Bundesnaturschutzgesetz) or deviate from it while observing certain rules and principles.

State regulation regarding marinas

State ordinance for the implementation of the Port Security Act (Port Security Implementation Ordinance - HaSiDVO)

State ordinance for the ports in Schleswig-Holstein

State regulation on the use of watercraft (Water Transport Ordinance - WVO)

State ordinance regarding safety when handling dangerous goods in the Schleswig-Holstein ports (Port Security Ordinance - HSVO)

Law regarding State Water

State ordinance on the competence of the water and coastal protection authorities

Establishes a legal framework regarding the protection of submarine telegraph cables outside territorial waters.

Agreement for co-operation in dealing with pollution of the North Sea by oil and other harmful substances.

Prevents unnecessary delays in maritime traffic, aids co-operation between governments, secures the highest practicable degree of uniformity in formalities and other procedures.

Aims to prevent all types of pollution at sea and ensures that goods transported are packaged in a way that they can be safely transported. It is applicable to all cargo-carrying ships. It is updated evey two years.

Minimum permissible free board according to the season of the year and the ship's trading pattern

The Convention, adopted by IMO in 1969, was the first successful attempt to introduce a universal tonnage measurement system. The Convention provides for gross and net tonnages, both of which are calculated independently.

Affirms the right of a coastal State to take measures on the high seas as may be necessary to prevent, mitigate or eliminate danger to its coastline or related interests from pollution by oil or the threat thereof, following upon a maritime casualty.

Aims to ensure that adequate compensation is available to persons who suffer oil pollution damage resulting from maritime casualties involving oil-carrying ships.

Aims to resolve difficulties and conflicts which arise from the simultaneous application to nuclear damage of certain maritime conventions dealing with shipowners' liability, as well as other conventions which place liability arising from nuclear incidents on the operators of the nuclear installations from which or to which the material in question was being transported.

Aims to provide compensation for pollution damage to the extent that the protection afforded by the 1969 Civil Liability Convention is inadequate. Aims to give relief to shipowners in respect of the additional financial burden imposed on them by the 1969 Civil Liability Convention, such relief being subject to conditions designed to ensure compliance with safety at sea and other conventions. Also aims to give effect to the related purposes set out in the Convention.

Updates and replaces the Collision Regulations of 1960 which were adopted at the same time as the 1960 SOLAS Convention. One of the most important innovations in the 1972 COLREGs was the recognition given to traffic separation schemes - Rule 10 gives guidance in determining safe speed, the risk of collision and the conduct of vessels operating in or near traffic separation schemes.

Aims to maintain a high level of safety of human life in the transport and handling of containers by providing generally acceptable test procedures and related strength requirements.Facilitate the international transport of containers by providing uniform international safety regulations, equally applicable to all modes of surface transport. In this way, proliferation of divergent national safety regulations can be avoided.

Its objective is to promote the effective control of all sources of marine pollution and to take all practicable steps to prevent pollution of the sea by dumping of wastes and other matters.

Contains requirements to prevent pollution that may be caused both accidentally and in the course of routine operations. Concerns the prevention of pollution from oil, bulk chemicals, dangerous goods, sewage, garbage and gas.

Aims to prevent, mitigate or eliminate marine pollution by substances other than oil resulting from a maritime casualty.

Designed to consolidate and harmonize two earlier Brussels conventions dealing with passengers and luggage and adopted in 1961 and 1967 respectively. The Convention establishes a regime of liability for damage suffered by passengers carried on a seagoing vessel. It declares a carrier liable for damage or loss suffered by a passenger if the incident causing the damage occurred in the course of the carriage and was due to the fault or neglect of the carrier.

Comprehensive range of minimum standards for the safe construction of ships ans the basic safety equipment to be carried on board.