Legal Challenges in the Implementation of Electronic Data Interchange in Transport Documents
EDI is emerging as a genuinely new means of transferring information, completely different from paper documents. For centuries, paper documents were the dominant means of communicating information, and even now, at the end of 2Oth century, they still keep this position. However, there is no doub...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hrvatska Akademija Znanosti i Umjetnosti
1997-11-01
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| Series: | Poredbeno Pomorsko Pravo |
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| Online Access: | https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/170607 |
| Summary: | EDI is emerging as a genuinely new means of transferring information,
completely different from paper documents. For centuries, paper documents
were the dominant means of communicating information, and even now,
at the end of 2Oth century, they still keep this position. However, there is no
doubt that in first decades of next century EDI will replace paper documents
to become the dominant and, in the future probably exclusive means of
communicating information, at least in business transactions.
The existinglaws affecting commercial transactions do not provide a satisfactory
environment to allow the use of EDI or other similar means of data
communication. The traditional law contains various requirements that are
obstructive to electronic commerce. The computer revolution has found many
jurisdictions not prepared to deal with the electronic transfer of data. In addition, there is considerable lack of international uniformity in this area. (...) |
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| ISSN: | 1331-9914 1848-8927 |