2.5 The Plan revision in 1996
The next revision was in 1996. The chairman was professor Hans Jacob Bull, with professor Trine-Lise Wilhelmsen as secretary, both from the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law.
The reason for the revision of the Plan in 1996 was partly that Norway had passed a new Insurance Contract Act in 1989. This Act is extremely consumer friendly, containing solutions not well adjusted to shipping companies operating internationally in competition with ship owners based in states with less protective insurance legislation, and thus cheaper premiums.(1) See further on the relationship between ICA and marine insurance NOU 1987: 24 pp. 40–41. See also Ot. Prp. Nr. 49 (1988–89) p. 32. Even if the ICA is not mandatory for shipping, it was still necessary to analyze whether the Act made it necessary to adjust the regulation in the Plan and/or insert new provisions to depart from the ICA. Furthermore, the technical and economic developments since 1964 made it necessary to assess the provisions.
The revision in 1996 followed the structure of the 1964 revision, but modernized the organization of the chapters. The 1996 Plan was published in several versions: Version 1997, Version 1999, Version 2000, Version 2002, Version 2003, Version 2007, and Version 2010.(2) Wilhelmsen/Bull 2017 p. 26.
In 2010, the Nordic Association of Marine Insurers (Cefor), which is responsible for the maintenance and publishing of standard marine insurance conditions in the Nordic market, decided that instead of operating with one set of standard conditions in each of the Nordic countries, efforts should be concentrated on a single shared set of conditions. As the basis for a set of unified Nordic conditions, Cefor chose the Norwegian Marine Insurance Plan 1996 Version 2010. An agreement was entered into between Cefor and the Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and Finnish shipowner associations on 3 November 2010 to construct the Nordic Marine Insurance Plan of 2013, which then entered into force in January 2013. It was amended in 2016, 2019 and 2023.(3) See Wilhelmsen/Bull 2017 p. 26. The Plan in use today is therefore the Nordic Marine Insurance Plan 2013 Version 2023 (NP).