Directive 2003/25/EC

means the competent authorities of the State whose flag the ro-ro passenger ship is entitled to fly;

means 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.

means a ro-ro passenger ship the keel of which is laid or which is at a similar stage of construction before 5 December 2024;

means a sea voyage from a port of a Member State to a port outside that Member State, or vice versa;

means a ro-ro passenger ship which is not an existing ro-ro passenger ship;

means a Member State to or from whose ports a ro-ro passenger ship is engaged on a regular service;

means 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:

means 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;

means, when used as a collective term, the stability requirements referred to in Article 6;

means 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;