LEGAL MEETING SUL TRASPORTO IN ACQUE INTERNE.
Il 12 giugno 2025 l’Università Ca’ Foscari in Venezia ospiterà la Conferenza legale internazionale The Harmonisation Process of Inland Water Transport Law in EU Member States. Open Legal Issues organizzata dalla Associazione Italiana di Diritto della navigazione interna (Aidni) con il patrocinio della stessa Università e della Rappresentanza in Italia della Commissione europea. I relatori, tra i quali figurano giuristi olandesi e tedeschi nonché rappresentanti della United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), tratteranno i temi dell’international river-sea transport e delle autonomous inland navigation vessels, analizzando le questioni giuridiche aperte.
Programma
09:30 Welcome Address
Tiziana Lippiello, Rector of Ca’ Foscari University
Massimiliano Grimaldi, President of the Italian Association of Inland Navigation Law and Founding Partner of Grimaldi Studio Legale Genova
09:45 Institutional Greetings
Edoardo Rixi, Italian Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport (in attesa di conferma)
10:00 Speech: The Role of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Victoria Ivanova, Secretary of Transport Networks & Logistics Section, Sustainable Transport Division at UNECE
10:30 First Session: River-sea Transport in EU Countries Moderator Massimiliano Grimaldi
The Duch Legal Framework, Ynke Ooijkaas, BVL Advocaten
The German Legal Framework, Johannes Trost, Wheelhouse – Kanzlei
The Belgian Legal Framework, Massimiliano Grimaldi, Grimaldi Studio Legale Genova
11:30 Coffe Break
11:45 Second Session: Towards Autonomous Inland Navigation Vessels Moderator Nicola Pascal, Studio Legale Pascal
The UNECE Resolutions, Victoria Ivanova, Secretary of Transport Networks & Logistics Section, Sustainable Transport Division at UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Autonomous Inland Navigation: a literature review and extracontractual liability issues, Camilla Domenighini, Researcher at the Faculty of Law at the University of Antwerp
Autonomous Inland Navigation Vessels and Insurance Implications, Cristiano Alessandri, Alessandri & Lo Torto Studio Legale
13:05 Speeches: What Shipowners need
Arno Reitsma, CEO at Scylla AG
Lucas Schmitter, CEO at CroisiEurope Cruises
13:30 Closing Remarks
Massimiliano Grimaldi
Cocktail
Registration
Seats available: 110
Participants should confirm their attendance to the Organising Secretariat segreteria@aidni.it by 3 June 2025, indicating if they will be attending also to the Cocktail.
Associazione Italiana di Diritto della Navigazione Interna
Via Dante, 2 – Palazzo della Borsa
16121 Genova (Italy)
Tel. – Fax + 39 010 55 333 05 www.aidni.it