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Definitions For the purpose of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:

(1) ‘the ISM Code’ means the International Management Code for the Safe Operation of Ships and for Pollution Prevention adopted by the International Maritime Organisation by Assembly Resolution A.741(18) of 4 November 1993, as amended by Maritime Safety Committee Resolution MSC.104(73) of 5 December 2000 and set out in Annex I to this Regulation, in its up-to-date version;

(2) ‘recognised organisation’ means a body recognised in accordance with Directive 94/57/EC;

(3) ‘company’ means the owner of the ship or any other organisation or person, such as the manager or the bareboat charterer, who has assumed responsibility for the operation of the ship from the shipowner and who, on assuming such responsibility, has agreed to take over all the duties and responsibilities imposed by the ISM Code;

(4) ‘passenger ship’ means a ship, including a high-speed craft, carrying more than 12 passengers, or a passenger submersible craft;

(5) ‘passenger’ means every person other than:

(a) the master and the members of the crew or other persons employed or engaged in any capacity on board a ship on the business of that ship; and (b) a child under one year of age;

(6) ‘high-speed craft’ means a high-speed craft as defined in Regulation X-1/2 of SOLAS, in its up-to-date version. For high-speed passenger craft, the limitations indicated in Article 2(f) of Directive 98/18/EC shall apply;

(7) ‘cargo ship’ means a ship, including a high-speed craft, which is not a passenger ship;

(8) ‘international voyage’ means a voyage by sea from a port of a Member State or any other State to a port outside that State, or vice versa;

(9) ‘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;

(10) ‘regular shipping service’ means a series of ship crossings operated so as to serve traffic between the same two or more points, either:

(a) according to a published timetable; or (b) with crossings so regular or frequent that they constitute a recognisable systematic series;

(11) ‘ro-ro passenger ferry’ means a seagoing passenger vessel as defined in Chapter II-1 of SOLAS, in its up-to-date version;

(12) ‘passenger submersible craft’ means a passenger-carrying mobile vessel which primarily operates under water and relies on surface support, such as a surface ship or shore-based facilities, for monitoring and for one or more of the following:

(a) recharging of power supply;

(b) recharging high pressure air;

(c) recharging life-support;

(13) ‘mobile offshore drilling unit’ means a vessel capable of engaging in drilling operations for the exploration for or exploitation of resources beneath the seabed such as liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons, sulphur or salt;

(14) ‘gross tonnage’ means the gross tonnage of a ship determined in accordance with the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969 or, in the case of ships engaged exclusively on domestic voyages and not measured in accordance with the said Convention, the gross tonnage of the ship determined in accordance with national tonnage measurement regulations.