administration of flag Statemeans the competent authorities of the State whose flag the ro-ro passenger ship is entitled to fly;
companymeans the owner of a ro-ro 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.
existing ro-ro passenger shipmeans a ro-ro passenger ship the keel of which is laid or which is at a similar stage of construction before 5 December 2024;
international voyagemeans a sea voyage from a port of a Member State to a port outside that Member State, or vice versa;
new ro-ro passenger shipmeans a ro-ro passenger ship which is not an existing ro-ro passenger ship;
Port Statemeans a Member State to or from whose ports a ro-ro passenger ship is engaged on a regular service;
regular servicemeans a series of ro-ro passenger 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:
ro-ro passenger shipmeans a ship carrying more than 12 passengers, having ro-ro cargo spaces or special category spaces, as defined in Regulation II-2/3 of the SOLAS Convention, as amended;
specific stability requirementsmeans, when used as a collective term, the stability requirements referred to in Article 6;
Stockholm Agreementmeans the Agreement concluded at Stockholm on 28 February 1996 in pursuance of SOLAS 95 Conference Resolution 14 ‘Regional agreements on specific stability requirements for ro-ro passenger ships’, adopted on 29 November 1995;