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;
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:
specific stability requirementsmeans, when used as a collective term, the stability requirements referred to in Article 6;’;