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Legal Framework to Promote and Regulate the Digital Transformation of Latin America's PortsStudy conducted by Dr. Elizalde Director of the Western Regional Law Department of the School of Social Sciences and Government of the Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Guadalajara, Mexico, which aims to provide recommendations and suggestions to generate a national regulatory framework for the use of single windows and disruptive technologies in ports.Dr. Pedro Elizalde MonteagudoSpanish11-2023
Essential Elements for Port LegislationProduct of a collaboration of the Associate Member, E&M International Consulting, under the direction of the maritime and port expert, Lludelis Espinal. This document is in Word format so that the CIP Community can incorporate comments and points they consider necessary and send their proposal to the CIP Secretariat.Lludelis EspinalSpanish07-2023
Summary Essential Elements in Port LegislationThis document is a summary of the product of a collaboration with a CIP Associate Member, E&M International Consulting, under the direction of maritime and port expert, Lludelis Espinal. This document presents a series of elements that could be considered essential to be included in a modern port legislation.Lludelis EspinalSpanish07-2023
Summary of the Legal Framework to Promote and Regulate the Digital Transformation of Latin America's PortsSummary of the study conducted by Dr. Elizalde which aimed to identify the level of digitalization of the ports involved, point out the main barriers or loopholes for digitalization, and establish the main legal issues linked to digital transformation in ports.Dr. Pedro Elizalde MonteagudoSpanish06-2023
Regulations of Ports Law The purpose of these Regulations is to regulate the activities of construction, use, development, exploitation, operation, protection, forms of administration and provision of services in ports, terminals, marinas and port facilities provided for in the Ports Law, and their interpretation for administrative purposes corresponds to the Secretariat.Mexican GovernmentSpanish16-12-2021
Draft Model Legislation on Maritime LawThe present version of the IIDM Draft Model Legislation has been called Version 2021, since it is the result of the review and adjustments made by the commission appointed by the President of the IIDM, Dr. Katerina Vuskovic in that year, which was composed of Drs. Luis Cova Arria and José Vicente Guzmán, and Dr. Patricia Martínez Fortoul. Martinez de Fortoul. This commission took as its starting point the text of the IIDM Draft Model Legislation - Panama 2012, which was drafted during the XVI Congress of the IIDM. Approved at the General Assembly on October 18, 2023.Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Marítimo (IIDM)Spanish2021
Navigation and Maritime Commerce LawThe purpose of this law is to regulate the general means of communication by water, navigation, its protection and the services rendered therein, the Mexican merchant marine, as well as the acts, facts and goods related to maritime commerce.Mexican GovernmentSpanish07-12-2020
Mexican Ports LawThe purpose of this law is to regulate ports, terminals, marinas and port facilities, their construction, use, exploitation, operation, protection and forms of administration, as well as the provision of port services.Mexican GovernmentSpanish07-12-2020
Note on the Guide to Port Legislation This Note presents a series of diagnostic areas that countries can use to evaluate existing legislation. It identifies areas that are not regulated and those that must be adapted to a new port model. It establishes specific definitions and clear guidelines on port policy.CIP SecretariatEnglish01-31-2017
Guide to Port Legislation The Guide to Port Legislation establishes the basic laws, which currently involves the port sector and related services, to ensure legal security and private investment through concessions, authorizations, contract or any other form of private participations in ports. In addition, provide a legal framework that allows for efficient and competitive management and operations, without becoming an obstacle to environmental, and port security and safety measures.José Antonio Pejovés Macedo through the CIP SecretariatEnglish10-10-2015
Compendium on Port Legislation of the AmericasIts main objective is to illustrate different normative realities of CIP Member States. It also aims at providing the port community of the Americas with management models and expertise of qualified legal specialists of the port sector in the region and lays the foundations to create a tool for a possible harmonization of port legislation.National Ports Administration (ANP) of Uruguay and the CIP SecretariatSpanish2014
United Nations Convention on the Law of the SeaThe Law of the Sea Convention sets a comprehensive legal framework for the use and protection of the sea, the seabed and subsoil, and the marine environment, including both natural and cultural resources.United NationsEnglish1982