The Polish yacht registry has undergone significant changes
The revised Act on the Registration of Yachts and Other Vessels up to 24 Meters in Length went into effect on August 1, 2020. While watching how its implementation progresses, it's worth noting certain significant developments that will influence yacht owners who want to register their vessels with Polish registries. The Freedom to select the registration authority. The small number of registration authorities available is no longer sufficient to meet the needs of Poland's growing yachting industry. Especially since the new law allows both legal and natural persons from the EU to register their vessels with the Polish registry, and the registration authorities have recently had to deal with a massive influx of vessel owners and operators from the Netherlands and Belgium, where recent amendments to the yacht registration regulations have made them less favourable to the operators. The new Act established the starosta (or county head) as a new authority (in addi...