Article 4
1
All persons on board any passenger ship which departs from a port located in a Member State shall be counted before that passenger ship departs.
2
Before the passenger ship departs, the number of persons on board shall be communicated to the master of the ship, and reported by appropriate technical means in the single window established pursuant to Article 5 of Directive 2010/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council
, or, if the Member State so chooses, communicated to the designated authority by means of the Automatic Identification System.
For a transitional period of 6 years from
20 December 2017
, Member States may continue to allow that information to be communicated to the company's passenger registrar or to the shore-based company system that performs the same function, instead of requiring it to be reported in the single window or to the designated authority by means of the Automatic Identification System.
Directive 2010/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of
20 October 2010
on reporting formalities for ships arriving in and/or departing from ports of the Member States and repealing Directive 2002/6/EC (
OJ L 283, 29.10.2010, p. 1
).
Substituted by Directive (EU) 2017/2109 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 November 2017 amending Council Directive 98/41/EC on the registration of persons sailing on board passenger ships operating to or from ports of the Member States of the Community and Directive 2010/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on reporting formalities for ships arriving in and/or departing from ports of the Member States.