Table of Contents -- COPYRIGHT -- INTRODUCTION -- REGULATIONS (EC) Nº 593/2008 ON THE LAW APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS ("ROME I") AND (EC) Nº 864/2007 ON THE LAW APPLICABLE TO NON-CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS ("ROME II") -- I. REGULATION (EC) Nº 593/2008, ON THE LAW APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS ("ROME I"). -- 1. Material scope of application of Rome I Regulation -- A. Determination -- B. Matters excluded from the scope of application of Rome I Regulation -- 2. Law governing the contract under Rome I Regulation -- A. General criterion: the party autonomy principle -- B. Requirements to exercise party autonomy -- C. Determination of applicable law in case of lack of choice by the parties -- D. Law governing particular contracts featured by the existence of weak parties -- 3. Limits to the determination of applicable law -- A. International public policy -- B. Mandatory rules not avoidable by the parties -- 4. Scope of the law governing the contract -- A. General rule -- B. Qualifications to the general rule -- C. Exceptions to the general rule -- II. REGULATION (EC) Nº 864/2007, ON THE LAW APPLICABLE TO NON-CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS ("ROME II"). -- 1. Scope of application -- 2. Principles underlying the determination of the law governing non-contractual obligations -- 3. General rule -- A. Choice of law by the parties -- B. Lack of choice of law by the parties -- 4. Special rules -- A. Responsibility caused by a harmful event -- B. Responsibility not caused by a harmful event -- 5. Common rules -- MARINE INSURANCE CONTRACTS UNDER THE ROME I AND BRUSSELS I REGULATIONS:CΟΝFLICT OF LAWS AND JURISDICTION ISSUES -- THE DISCIPLINE OF MARITIME TRANSPORT CONTRACTS UNDER THE ROME I AND BRUSSELS I REGULATIONS: CONFLICT OF LAWS AND JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES -- Collisions and maritime salvage -- Maritime environmental delict/tort -- I. General comments.

1. Rome II provisions of law governing the non-contractual obligations arising out of environmental damage -- 2. Relationship between Rome II and other competing sources of Community law -- 3. Correlation with national law -- 4. Relationship of Rome II Regulation with existing international conventions -- 5. Relationship with Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Resulting from Activities Dangerous to the Environment, 1993 (The Lugano Convention) -- 6. Relationship of Rome II Regulation with future international conventions -- II. The Characterization (the qualification) of the Environmental Damage -- 1. General remarks -- 2. Autonomous approach -- 3. The criteria for characterization under Rome II and the The Environmental Damage Directive -- III. The reasoning of Article 7 of Rome II Regulation -- IV. Application of Article 7 -- V. Party autonomy in non-contractual obligation arising out of environmental damage -- VI. The rules of conduct and safety in maritime environment torts/delicts in the context of Bulgarian Private International Law.