U The provisions of the Croatian Maritime Code relating to the global limitation of the liability of shipping companies are being considered in the work. It sets out the basic principles of the 1976 Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, to which the Republic of Croatia is a party and whose provisions were incorporated into the Code. Reference is made to the provisions of the Code which would need to be amended because they do not comply with the 1976 Convention and propose amendments to the provisions which, in the opinion of the author, do not take sufficient account of the interests of the Republic of Croatia as a coastal State.