Dr Adriana Padovan of the Adriatic Institute and Prof Nikoleta Radionov of the Zagreb Law Faculty participate as country correspondents on the international project coordinated by the Dutch Stichting Vervoeradres in cooperation with the Institut du Droit International des Transports – IDIT from Rouen (France). The project gathers correspondents from more than 20 European countries. The final goal is to publish a new edition of the book K. F. Haak, The liability of the carrier under CMR, Haag, Stichting Vervoeradres, 1986.
The publication will be useful for the legal practitioners and academics specialised in transport law and will contain valuable information on the application of the CMR convention and its interpretation in comparative law. In addition, an internet database is being created containing the relevant national legislation, case law and national reports on the interpretation of the CMR convention. Prof Radionov and dr Padovan collected more than 600 decisions of Croatian courts dealing with the application of the CMR convention.
They analysed and systemised the collected case law according to certain important legal issues and they successfully identified: a) the issues that have so far led to ununiformed positions of the Croatian courts and b) issues that have been interpreted in a manner which is not in line with the relevant international practice.
They suggested certain solutions for the future development of the domestic case law that should be in line with the prevailing interpretation of the CMR convention in its international application. Based on this analysis, Prof Radionov and dr Padovan prepared a country report which has been published on the IDIT website: https://www.idit.fr/rapports-pays/index.php
