La Wreck Removal Convention 2007: quadro normativo attuale e prospettive future

Even though sea wrecks represented subject of interest and several attempts to regulatory at international level since ancient time, it has reached the drafting of a legal text specifically devoted to them only recently. This is the Wreck Removal Convention 2007 (WRC), entered into force on 14th April 2015, but not in Italy. This study – quickly flowing previous rules – firstly has the purpose to understand the international legislator’s reasons to adopt a specific regulation in this matter. Secondly, it analyze WRC provisions and their relations with other international conventions related to marine pollution prevention in order to understand if there is an overlap or integration between these.Finally, this study also deal with some consequences of the possible entry into force of WRC in Italy that actually apply the Navigation Code 1942.