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Republic of Albania People’s Assembly Law No. 9130 date September 8, 2003 Port Authority Law On the basis of Articles 78 and 83, point 1of the Constitution of the Republic of Albania and on the proposal of the Council of Ministers The People’s Assembly of the Republic of Albania Decided: Chapter 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 1 Objective of the Law The objective of this Law is to: implement a development strategy for the commercial sea ports of Albania for the port infrastructure, superstructure, equipment, financial and human resources, in order to offer effective support for the achievement of local, regional and national economic objectives, and to promote Albanias competitiveness and trade objectives; make the system of the commercial sea ports of Albania efficient and commercially oriented, to improve their competitiveness, to promote Albania’s trade and economic development through the direct involvement of the private sector with a view to relieve public expenditure and to contribute to the financing of port modernization; shift the ports from “service ports” to “landlord ports” to increase the commercial independence of the port. base the ports’ infrastructure and services on international practices and standards that are consistent with those of Albanias major trading partners in order to foster harmonization of standards among nations; ensure high level standards in the provision of port services to satisfy the needs of users at reasonable costs to them; provide high level of safety in operations and environmental protection; provide autonomy for the management of the port authorities and various operators rendering port services; provide the leasing, concessioning and licensing of some of the port facilities designated for operations; and co-ordinate with other maritime activities land transportation systems. Article 2 The object The object of this law is to define the organization, rules, functioning and administration, the relationship with the op