companyshall mean the owner of a passenger ship or any other organisation or person such as the manager or the bareboat charterer, who has assumed responsibility for operating the passenger ship from the owner,
designated authorityshall mean the competent authority of the Member State responsible for search and rescue or concerned with the aftermath of an accident, having access to the information required under this Directive,
high-speed craftshall mean a high-speed craft as defined in Regulation 1 of Chapter X of the 1974 SOLAS Convention, in its up-to-date version,
passenger registrarshall mean the responsible person designated by a company to fulfil the ISM Code obligations, where applicable, or a person designated by a company as responsible for the transmission of information on persons who have embarked on a company passenger ship,
passenger shipshall mean a ship or a high-speed craft which carries more than 12 passengers,
personsshall mean all people on board irrespective of age,
pleasure yacht or pleasure craftshall mean a vessel which is not engaged in trade, regardless of its means of propulsion.
port areashall mean an area as defined in point (r) of Article 2 of Directive 2009/45/EC,
protected sea areashall mean a sea area sheltered from open sea effects where a ship is at no time more than six miles from a place of refuge where shipwrecked persons can land and in which the proximity of search and rescue facilities is ensured,
regular serviceshall mean a series of ship crossings operated so as to serve traffic between the same two or more ports, or a series of voyages from and to the same port without intermediate calls, either:
third countryshall mean any country which is not a Member State,