Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 laying down technical requirements for inland waterway vessels and repealing Council Directive 82/714/EEC (2006/87/EC) (repealed)

Article 1.01 Definitions

The following definitions shall apply in this Directive:

• Types of craft

  1.

  ‘craft’: a vessel or item of floating equipment;

  2.

  ‘vessel’: an inland waterway vessel or sea-going ship;

  3.

  ‘inland waterway vessel’: a vessel intended solely or mainly for navigation on inland waterways;

  4.

  ‘sea-going ship’: a vessel certificated for sea-going service;

  5.

  ‘motor vessel’: a motor cargo vessel or a motor tanker;

  6.

  ‘motor tanker’: a vessel intended for the carriage of goods in fixed tanks and built to navigate independently under its own motive power;

  7.

  ‘motor cargo vessel’: a vessel, other than a motor tanker, intended for the carriage of goods and built to navigate independently under its own motive power;

  8.

  ‘canal barge’: an inland waterway vessel not exceeding 38,5 m in length and 5,05 m in breadth and usually operating on the Rhine-Rhône Canal;

  9.

  ‘tug’: a vessel specially built to perform towing operations;

  10.

  ‘pusher’: a vessel specially built to propel a pushed convoy;

  11.

  ‘barge’: a dumb barge or tank barge;

  12.

  ‘tank barge’: a vessel intended for the carriage of goods in fixed tanks and built to be towed, either having no motive power of its own or having only sufficient motive power to perform restricted manoeuvres;

  13.

  ‘dumb barge’: a vessel, other than a tank barge, intended for the carriage of goods and built to be towed, either having no motive power of its own or having only sufficient motive power to perform restricted manoeuvres;

  14.

  ‘lighter’: a tank lighter, cargo lighter or ship-borne lighter;

  15.

  ‘tank lighter’: a vessel intended for the carriage of goods in fixed tanks, built or specially modified to be pushed, either having no motive power of its own or having only sufficient motive power to perform restricted manoeuvres when not part of a pushed convoy;

  16.

  ‘cargo lighter’: a vessel, other than a tank lighter, intended for the carriage of goods and built or specially modified to be pushed, either having no motive power of its own or having only sufficient motive power to perform restricted manoeuvres when not part of a pushed convoy;

  17.

  ‘ship-borne lighter’: a lighter built to be carried aboard sea-going ships and to navigate on inland waterways;

  18.

  ‘passenger vessel’: a day trip or cabin vessel constructed and equipped to carry more than 12 passengers;

  19.

  ‘passenger sailing vessel’: a passenger vessel built and fitted out also with a view to propulsion under sail;

  20.

  ‘day-trip vessel’: a passenger vessel without overnight passenger cabins;

  21.

  ‘cabin vessel’: a passenger vessel with overnight passenger cabins;

  22.

  ‘high-speed vessel’: a motorised craft capable of reaching speeds over 40 km/h in relation to water;

  23.

  ‘floating equipment’: a floating installation carrying working gear such as cranes, dredging equipment, pile drivers or elevators;

  24.

  ‘worksite craft’: a vessel, appropriately built and equipped for use at worksites, such as a reclamation barge, hopper or pontoon barge, pontoon or stone-dumping vessel;

  25.

  ‘recreational craft’: a vessel other than a passenger vessel, intended for sport or pleasure;

  26.

  ‘ship's boat’: a boat for use in transport, rescue, salvage and work duties;

  27.

  ‘floating establishment’: any floating installation not normally intended to be moved, such as a swimming bath, dock, jetty or boathouse;

  28.

  ‘floating objec’: a raft or other structure, object or assembly capable of navigation, not being a vessel or floating equipment or establishment;

• Assemblies of craft

  29.

  ‘convoy’: a rigid or towed convoy of craft;

  30.

  ‘formation’: the manner in which a convoy is assembled;

  31.

  ‘rigid convoy’: a pushed convoy or side-by-side formation;

  32.

  ‘pushed convoy’: a rigid assembly of craft of which at least one is positioned in front of the craft providing the power for propelling the convoy, known as the ‘pusher(s)’; a convoy composed of a pusher and a pushed craft coupled so as to permit guided articulation is also considered as rigid;

  33.

  ‘side-by-side formation’: an assembly of craft coupled rigidly side by side, none of which is positioned in front of the craft propelling the assembly;

  34.

  ‘towed convoy’: an assembly of one or more craft, floating establishments or floating objects towed by one or more self-propelled craft forming part of the convoy;

• Particular areas on board

  35.

  ‘main engine room’: space where the propulsion engines are installed;

  36.

  ‘engine room’: space where combustion engines are installed;

  37.

  ‘boiler room’: a space housing a fuel-operated installation designed to produce steam or heat a thermal fluid;

  38.

  ‘enclosed superstructure’: a watertight, rigid, continuous structure with rigid walls joined to the deck in a permanent and watertight manner;

  39.

  ‘wheelhouse’: the area which houses all the control and monitoring instruments necessary for manoeuvring the vessel;

  40.

  ‘accommodation’: a space intended for the use of persons normally living on board, including galleys, storage space for provisions, toilets and washing facilities, laundry facilities, ante-rooms and passageways, but not the wheelhouse;

  41.

  ‘passenger area’: areas on board intended for passengers and enclosed areas such as lounges, offices, shops, hairdressing salons, drying rooms, laundries, saunas, toilets, washrooms, passageways, connecting passages and stairs not encapsulated by walls;

  42.

  ‘control centre’: a wheelhouse, an area which contains an emergency electrical power plant or parts thereof or an area with a centre permanently occupied by on-board personnel or crew members, such as for fire alarm equipment, remote controls of doors or fire dampers;

  43.

  ‘stairwell’: the well of an internal staircase or of a lift;

  44.

  ‘lounge’: a room of an accommodation or a passenger area. On board passenger vessels, galleys are not regarded as lounges;

  45.

  ‘galley’: a room with a stove or a similar cooking appliance;

  46.

  ‘store room’: a room for the storage of flammable liquids or a room with an area of over 4 m² for storing supplies;

  47.

  ‘hold’: part of the vessel, bounded fore and aft by bulkheads, opened or closed by means of hatch covers, intended for the carriage of goods, whether packaged or in bulk, or for housing tanks not forming part of the hull;

  48.

  ‘fixed tank’: a tank joined to the vessel, the walls of the tank consisting either of the hull itself or of a casing separate from the hull;

  49.

  ‘working station’: an area where members of the crew carry out their duties, including gangway, derrick and ship's boat;

  50.

  ‘passageway’: an area intended for the normal movement of persons and goods;

  51.

  ‘safe area’: the area which is externally bounded by a vertical surface running at a distance of 1/5 B_WL parallel to the course of the hull in the line of maximum draught;

  52.

  ‘muster areas’: areas of the vessel which are specially protected and in which passengers muster in the event of danger;

  53.

  ‘evacuation areas’: part of muster areas of the vessel from which evacuation of persons can be carried out;

• Marine engineering terms

  54.

  ‘plane of maximum draught’: the water plane corresponding to the maximum draught at which the craft is authorised to navigate;

  55.

  ‘safety clearance’: the distance between the plane of maximum draught and the parallel plane passing through the lowest point above which the craft is no longer deemed to be watertight;

  56.

  ‘residual safety clearance’: the vertical clearance available, in the event of the vessel heeling over, between the water level and the lowest point of the immersed side, beyond which the vessel is no longer regarded as watertight;

  57.

  ‘freeboard (f)’: the distance between the plane of maximum draught and a parallel plane passing through the lowest point of the gunwale or, in the absence of a gunwale, the lowest point of the upper edge of the ship's side;

  58.

  ‘residual freeboard’: the vertical clearance available, in the event of the vessel heeling over, between the water level and the upper surface of the deck at the lowest point of the immersed side or, if there is no deck, the lowest point of the upper surface of the fixed ship's side;

  59.

  ‘margin line’: an imaginary line drawn on the side plating not less than 10 cm below the bulkhead deck and not less than 10 cm below the lowest non-watertight point of the side plating. If there is no bulkhead deck, a line drawn not less than 10 cm below the lowest line up to which the outer plating is watertight shall be used;

  60.

  ‘water displacement (∇)’: the immersed volume of the vessel, in m³;

  61.

  ‘displacement (Δ)’: the total weight of the vessel, inclusive of cargo, in t;

  62.

  ‘block coefficient (C_B)’: the ratio between the water displacement and the product of length L_WL, breadth B_WL and draught T;

  63.

  ‘lateral plane above water (A_V)’: lateral plane of the vessel above the waterline in m²;

  64.

  ‘bulkhead deck’: the deck to which the required watertight bulkheads are taken and from which the freeboard is measured;

  65.

  ‘bulkhead’: a wall of a given height, usually vertical, partitioning the vessel and bounded by the bottom of the vessel, the plating or other bulkheads;

  66.

  ‘transverse bulkhead’: a bulkhead extending from one side of the vessel to the other;

  67.

  ‘wall’: a dividing surface, usually vertical;

  68.

  ‘partition wall’: a non-watertight wall;

  69.

  ‘length (L)’: the maximum length of the hull in m, excluding rudder and bowsprit;

  70.

  ‘length overall (L_OA)’: the maximum length of the craft in m, including all fixed installations such as parts of the steering system or power plant, mechanical or similar devices;

  71.

  ‘length of waterline (L_WL)’: the length of the hull in m, measured at the maximum draught;

  72.

  ‘breadth (B)’: the maximum breadth of the hull in m, measured to the outer edge of the shell plating (excluding paddle wheels, rub rails, and similar);

  73.

  ‘breadth overall (B_OA)’: the maximum breadth of the craft in m, including all fixed equipment such as paddle wheels, rub rails, mechanical devices and the like;

  74.

  ‘breadth of waterline (B_WL)’: breadth of the hull in m, measured from the outside of the side plating at the maximum draught line;

  75.

  ‘height (H)’: the shortest vertical distance in m between the lowest point of the hull or the keel and the lowest point of the deck on the side of the vessel;

  76.

  ‘draught (T)’: the vertical distance in m between the lowest point of the hull or the keel and the maximum draught line;

  77.

  ‘forward perpendicular’: the vertical line at the forward point of the intersection of the hull with the maximum draught line;

  78.

  ‘clear width of side deck’: the distance between the vertical line passing through the most prominent part of the hatch coaming on the side deck side and the vertical line passing through the inside edge of the slip guard (guard-rail, foot rail) on the outer side of the side deck;

• Steering system

  79.

  ‘steering system’: all the equipment necessary for steering the vessel, such as to ensure the manoeuvrability laid down in Chapter 5;

  80.

  ‘rudder’: the rudder or rudders, with shaft, including the rudder quadrant and the components connecting with the steering apparatus;

  81.

  ‘steering apparatus’: the part of the steering system which produces the movement of the rudder;

  82.

  ‘drive unit’: the steering-apparatus drive, between the power source and the steering apparatus;

  83.

  ‘power source’: the power supply to the steering drive unit and the steering apparatus produced by an on-board network, batteries or an internal combustion engine;

  84.

  ‘steering control’: the component parts of and circuitry for the operation of a power-driven steering control;

  85.

  ‘steering apparatus drive unit’: the control for the steering apparatus, its drive unit and its power source;

  86.

  ‘manual drive’: a system whereby manual operation of the hand wheel moves the rudder by means of a mechanical transmission, without any additional power source;

  87.

  ‘manually-operated hydraulic drive’: a manual control actuating a hydraulic transmission;

  88.

  ‘rate-of-turn regulator’: equipment which automatically produces and maintains a given rate of turn of the vessel in accordance with preselected values;

  89.

  ‘wheelhouse designed for radar navigation by one person’: a wheelhouse arranged in such a way that, during radar navigation, the vessel can be manoeuvred by one person;

• Properties of structural components and materials

  90.

  ‘watertight’: a structural component or device so fitted as to prevent any ingress of water;

  91.

  ‘spray-proof and weathertight’: a structural component or device so fitted that in normal conditions it allows only a negligible quantity of water to penetrate;

  92.

  ‘gastight’: a structural component or device so fitted as to prevent the ingress of gas and vapours;

  93.

  ‘non-combustible’: a substance which neither burns nor produces flammable vapours in such quantities that they ignite spontaneously when heated to approximately 750^oC;

  94.

  ‘flame-retardant’: material which does not readily catch fire, or whose surface at least restricts the spread of flames pursuant to the test procedure referred to in Article 15.11(1)(c);

  95.

  ‘fire-resistance’: the property of structural components or devices as certified by the test procedure referred to in Article 15.11(1)(d);

  96.

  ‘Code for Fire Test Procedures’: the International Code for the Application of Fire Test Procedures adopted under Resolution MSC.61(67) by the Maritime Safety Committee of the IMO;

• Other definitions

  97.

  ‘approved classification society’: a classification society which has been recognised in accordance with the criteria and the procedures of Annex VII;

  98.

  ‘radar installation’: an electronic navigational aid for detecting and displaying the surroundings and traffic;

  99.

  ‘Inland ECDIS’: a standardised system for displaying electronic navigational charts for inland waters and associated information, that displays selected information from proprietary electronic navigational charts for inland waters and optionally information from other sensors of the craft;

  100.

  ‘Inland ECDIS installation’: an installation for displaying electronic navigational charts for inland waters that can be operated in two different modes: information mode and navigation mode;

  101.

  ‘information mode’: use of Inland ECDIS for information purposes only without radar overlay;

  102.

  ‘navigation mode’: use of Inland ECDIS with radar overlay for navigating a craft;

  103.

  ‘shipboard personnel’: all employees on board a passenger vessel who are not members of the crew;

  104.

  ‘persons with reduced mobility’: persons facing particular problems when using public transport, such as the elderly and the handicapped and persons with sensory disabilities, persons in wheelchairs, pregnant women and persons accompanying young children;

  105.

  ‘Community certificate’: a certificate issued to an inland waterway vessel by the competent authority, signifying compliance with the technical requirements of this Directive.