Polish National Maritime Safety System – Objectives of the Establishment, Structures and Tasks

Abstract

The European Commission expanded the scope of operation of the Vessel Traffic Monitoring and Information System and ships reporting formalities established according to the requirements of the Directives 2002/59/EC and 2010/65/EU. Member States of the European Union were required to introduce the legislation implementing the revised requirements of amended directives and organizational means and technical systems necessary to attain them. In Poland requirements of these directives are introduced by acts of the Polish parliament and regulations of the Polish Minister of Transport, Construction and Maritime Economy. As a mean of enabling organizational and technical implementation of legal requirements has been put into operation the Polish National Maritime Safety System (KSBM) established in the scope of project co-financed by the European Union. Paper presents requirements of the Polish legislation implementing the provisions of the above mentioned directives and objectives of the establishment of KSBM and structure and tasks of this system. The article ends the authors' comments on the directions of the further development of presented system in relation to the necessity to implement the requirements of the Directive 2010/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 on reporting formalities for ships arriving in and/or departing from ports of the Member States.