Definitions
Article 2
For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions apply:
1. ‘ro-ro passenger ship’ means a ship with facilities to enable road or rail vehicles to roll on and roll off the vessel, and carrying more than 12 passengers;
2. ‘high-speed passenger craft’ means a craft as defined in Regulation 1 of Chapter X of SOLAS 74, and carrying more than 12 passengers;
3. ‘SOLAS 74’ means the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, including Protocols and amendments thereto, in its up-to-date version;
4. ‘High Speed Craft Code’ means the ‘International Code of Safety for High Speed Craft’ contained in IMO Maritime Safety Committee Resolution MSC.36(63) of 20 May 1994 or the International Code of Safety for High-Speed Craft, 2000 (2000 HSC Code), contained in IMO Resolution MSC.97(73) of December 2000, in its up-to-date version;
5. ‘HSSC’ means the IMO Survey Guidelines under the Harmonized System of Survey and Certification, in its up-to-date version;
6. ‘regular service’ means a series of ro-ro passenger ship or high-speed passenger craft 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:
  1. according to a published timetable; or
  2. with crossings so regular or frequent that they constitute a recognisable systematic series;
7. ‘sea area’ means any sea area or sea route established pursuant to Article 4 of Directive 2009/45/EC;
8. ‘certificates’ means:
  1. for ro-ro passenger ships and high-speed passenger craft engaged on international voyages, the safety certificates issued under SOLAS 74 or under the High Speed Craft Code respectively, together with the relevant attached records of equipment;
  2. for ro-ro passenger ships and high-speed passenger craft engaged on domestic voyages, the safety certificates issued in accordance with Directive 2009/45/EC together with the relevant attached records of equipment;
9. ‘administration of the flag State’ means the competent authorities of the State whose flag the ro-ro passenger ship or the high-speed passenger craft is entitled to fly;
10. ‘domestic voyage’ means a voyage in sea areas from a port of a Member State to the same or another port within that Member State;
11. ‘company’ means the organisation or person who has agreed to take over all the duties and responsibilities imposed by the International Management Code for Safe Operation of Ships and for Pollution Prevention (the ISM Code) in its up-to- date version or, in cases where Chapter IX of SOLAS 74 does not apply, the owner of the ro-ro passenger ship or the high-speed passenger craft or any other organisation or person such as the manager, or the bareboat charterer, who has assumed the responsibility for operation of the ro-ro passenger ship or the high-speed passenger craft from its owner;
12. ‘inspector’ means a public-sector employee or other person, duly authorised by the competent authority of a Member State to carry out the inspections provided for in this Directive, who is responsible to that competent authority and who fulfills the minimum criteria specified in Annex XI to Directive 2009/16/EC;
13. ‘competent authority of the Member State’ means the authority appointed by the Member State under this Directive and responsible for carrying out the tasks assigned to it by this Directive.