Legal Basis

Passage regarding pilotage from
the Act on maritime safety

dated 9th November 2000 (Official Journal of Law dated 13th December 2000)

Art.36.

1. Pilotage services may be rendered only by persons possessing qualifications of maritime pilot confirmed by appropriate document

2. Rendering of pilotage services for specific types of vessels and on certain routes or areas may be subject to attaining by the pilot special competences hereinafter called "pilot competences"

3. Documents confirming the attainment of a maritime pilot qualification or a certificate of competences are issued by the directors of maritime offices for a fee that is determined in the annex to this act. The fee is state budget profit.

4. The director of the appropriate maritime office supervises pilotage in port areas, internal waters and territorial sea so far as it is necessary to ensure maritime safety.

5. If it is required by the conditions of maritime safety, the director of appropriate maritime office introduces compulsory pilotage, determining conditions for using pilot services and exemptions from compulsory pilotage.

6. The appropriate Minister for maritime affairs, may due to navigational obstructions introduce, by the way of decree, compulsory pilotage in the territorial sea, determining conditions for using pilot services and exemptions from compulsory pilotage.

7. The appropriate Minister for maritime affairs, shall determine by the way of decree, qualification requirements for maritime pilot, conditions required for obtaining pilot competence, conditions for issuing qualification documents and a competence certificate, a template of the qualification documents, as well as detailed competences of the director of the maritime office with regard to pilotage supervision, taking into account the need to emsure proper rendering of pilotage services.