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General provisions for the registration of vessels

  1. Service location
  2. Vessels and their engines registered by CSDD
  3. Vessels and engines not registered by CSDD
  4. Vessel registration deadlines
  1. Persons to whom a vessel can be registered
  2. Persons who may register a vessel
  3. Issue of a power of attorney in e-CSDD or in person

Persons to whom a vessel can be registered

Vessel and outboard engines can be registered in the ownership, possession and holding of:

  • Citizens and non-citizens of the Republic of Latvia, as foreigners who can enter and reside in Latvia and who are:
    • have reached the age of majority;
    • have reached the age of 16, - own, possess or hold vessel authorized to drive from the age of 14 or 16, respectively, or outboard engines. In this case, registration requires the consent of at least one of its parents (guardian);
    • minors and who are the sole heirs of the vessel or numbered unit. In this case, the vessel or outboard engine shall be registered in the ownership or possession of that person and the registration certificate shall indicate thedata regarding the guardian of that person;
    • in the ownership or possession of persons over whom guardianship has been established. In this case in the registration the data of the guardian of the person will be indicated;
  • Legal persons registered in Latvia, their branches, including branches or representative offices of foreign merchants and organizations registered in Latvia, contractual companies, institutions of direct or indirect administration.

Vessels may also be registered as owned by those foreign persons whose location is not in Latvia, if:

  • one of the above-mentioned persons shall be registered as the holder, additionally submitting a document certifying the holding;
  • the vessel is simultaneously removed from the register for export from the country.

If the holder of the vessel (outboard engine) is a person who is not a citizen or non-citizen of Latvia and who has not received a residence permit issued in Latvia, the vessel (outboard engine) may be registered in Latvia for a period of up to 6 months.

The owner of a vessel or outboard engine has the opportunity to register the actual user of the vessel (outboard engine) by indicating him as the holder in the registration certificate (more: Registration and change of vessel holder).