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The purpose of this article is to present and analyse the institution of the limitation of the enforcement of the Polish criminal jurisdiction over crimes committed on board of the foreign ship during its innocent passage through the Polish territorial sea. The author presents and comments: the territorial principle of the Polish criminal law, the right of innocent passage and the institution of the limitation of the enforcement of the costal State’s criminal juridsiction over crimes committed on board of the foreign ship during its innocent passage and evaluate this institution in relation to the Polish criminal procedural and substantive law. For this purpose the author interpretates provisions of: The Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone of 1958, The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982, Law on Sea Areas of the Republic of Poland and on Maritime Administration of 1991 and other Polish municipal laws. The author's main intention is to illustrate the substance of this institution and to indicate the possible consequences that may result from it.