Merchant Shipping Code (1991) Country/Territory Estonia Document type Legislation Date 1991 (2016) Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source RT 1991, 46, 577 Subject Environment gen., Sea Keyword Navigation Harbour Internal trade International trade Marine pollution Pollution control Risk assessment/management Enforcement/compliance Public health Liability/compensation Protection of environment Geographical area Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, Northern Europe Abstract This Act approves the Merchant Shipping Code of Estonia. Carriage and towing and provision of other services only between ports in the Republic of Estonia or in the port basin of or with departure from an Estonian port and with entrance in the same port shall be carried out by ships flying the national flag of Estonia or the flag of a Member State of the European Union or the flag of a state which is a contracting party to the EEA Agreement. The owner of sunken property shall take measures to eliminate environmental risks. If there is a risk of pollution of the environment, the police authorities have the right to take measures to eliminate the environmental risk before the raising of the property. If the property sunken in the aforesaid sea area brings about the risk of pollution of the environment, the police authorities shall organise the elimination of the environmental risk before the property is raised. If sunken property poses a direct danger to vessel traffic in public waterways or human life or health or to the environment, the owner of the sunken property shall immediately organise the raising of the sunken property and take measures to eliminate the danger. If the owner of the sunken property does not perform the obligation to eliminate the danger immediately, the Estonian Maritime Administration and in case of an environmental risk the police authorities have the right to apply substitutive enforcement in accordance with the procedure provided for in the Substitutive Enforcement and Penalty Payment Act. Full text English/Estonian Website www.riigiteataja.ee