UDK: 347.79

Vitaly V. Kluyev - head of the Department of State Policy in the field of maritime and inland water transport of the Ministry of Transport of Russia

Abstract. The Russian Federation has adopted a comprehensive federal law in the field of autonomous shipping. Many provisions of this law are innovative in nature; there have appeared new concepts in the field of merchant shipping and navigation on inland waterways, new legal structures, new subjects of legal relations related to merchant shipping and shipping. These provisions require comprehensive analysis, discussion, and scientific evaluation. The adopted amendments to the legislation in the field of merchant shipping eliminate legal restrictions on the development and introduction into widespread use of autonomous ships, but at the same time create the need for a more detailed study of various aspects of the existing system of law in the area under consideration. The current paper has presented the study, based on the methods of modern hermeneutics and general scientific systematicity, which analyzed the process of preparing the law on autonomous navigation, the legal discussions that arose in this process, as well as an assessment of this law. The Law on Autonomous Shipping is the first regulatory legal act in the field of autonomous (unmanned) transport; its designs can be used in formulating the provisions of the relevant legal norms in road transport and aviation.

Keywords: merchant shipping; autonomous shipping; international maritime law; legal regulation of maritime autonomous surface vessels; remoted crew of a sea vessel; remoted captain of a sea vessel; organization competent in the field of autonomous navigation.

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