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Definitions For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions apply:

(1) ‘IMO Casualty Investigation Code’ means the Code of the International Standards and Recommended Practices for a Safety Investigation into a Marine Casualty or Marine Incident in the Annex to IMO resolution MSC.255(84) of the IMO Maritime Safety Committee of 16 May 2008, in its up-to-date version;

(2) ‘IMO Guidelines to Assist Investigators in the Implementation of the Casualty Investigation Code’ means the guidelines in the Annex to IMO resolution A.1075(28) adopted by the IMO Assembly on 4 December 2013, in their up-to-date version;

(3) the following terms shall be understood in accordance with the definitions contained in the IMO Casualty Investigation Code:

(a) ‘marine casualty’;

(b) ‘very serious marine casualty’;

(c) ‘marine incident’;

(d) ‘marine safety investigation’;

(e) ‘marine safety investigation authority’;

(f) ‘marine safety investigating State’;

(g) ‘substantially interested State’;

(h) ‘serious injury’;

(4) ‘IMO Guidelines on the Fair Treatment of Seafarers in the Event of a Maritime Accident’ means the guidelines in the Annex to IMO resolution LEG.3(91) of the IMO Legal Committee of 27 April 2006 as approved by the Governing Body of the International Labour Organisation at its 296th session of 12 to 16 June 2006, in their up-to-date version;

(5) ‘ro-ro passenger ship’ means ‘ro-ro passenger ship’ as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Directive (EU) 2017/2110 of the European Parliament and of the Council ();

(6) ‘high-speed passenger craft’ means ‘high-speed passenger craft’ as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Directive (EU) 2017/2110;

(7) ‘voyage data recorder’ (‘VDR’) means ‘voyage data recorder’ as defined in point 4.1 of the Annex to IMO resolution MSC.333(90) of the IMO Maritime Safety Committee of 22 May 2012, in its up-to-date version and as supplemented by the relevant IMO performance standards applicable on the date of installation on-board of that VDR, and without prejudice to Union law;

(8) ‘simplified voyage data recorder’ (‘S-VDR’) means ‘simplified voyage data recorder’ as defined in point 4.1 of the Annex to IMO resolution MSC. 163(78) of the IMO Maritime Safety Committee of 17 May 2004, in its up-to-date version and as supplemented by the relevant IMO performance standards applicable on the date of installation on-board of that S-VDR, and without prejudice to Union law;

(9) ‘safety recommendation’ means any proposal made, including for the purposes of registration and control, by:

(a) the safety investigation authority of the State conducting or leading the safety investigation on the basis of information derived from that investigation; or (b) where appropriate, the Commission, acting on the basis of an abstract data analysis and the results of safety investigations carried out;

(10) ‘length of a fishing vessel’ means ‘length of a fishing vessel’ within the meaning of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1130 of the European Parliament and of the Council ();

(11) ‘fatal injury’ means an injury which is sustained by a person in an accident, and which results in his or her death within 30 days of the date of the accident, if the related information is available.