FantasticSearch

Definitions For the purpose of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) ‘ro-ro passenger ship’ means a ship carrying more than 12 passengers, having ro-ro cargo spaces or special category spaces, as defined in Regulation II-2/3 of the SOLAS Convention, as amended;

(b) ‘existing ro-ro passenger ship’ means a ro-ro passenger ship the keel of which is laid or which is at a similar stage of construction before 5 December 2024; a similar stage of construction means the stage at which:

(i) construction identifiable with a specific ship begins; and (ii) assembly of that ship has commenced comprising at least 50 tonnes or 1 % of the estimated mass of structural material, whichever is less;

(c) ‘new ro-ro passenger ship’ means a ro-ro passenger ship which is not an existing ro-ro passenger ship;

(d) ‘a passenger’ is every person other than 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 other than a child under one year of age;

(e) ‘SOLAS Convention’ means the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea and amendments thereto in force;

(ea) ‘SOLAS 90’ means the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, as last amended by Resolution MSC.117(74);

(eb) ‘SOLAS 2009’ means the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, as last amended by Resolution MSC.216(82);

(ec) ‘SOLAS 2020’ means the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, as last amended by Resolution MSC.421(98);

(f) ‘regular service’ means a series of ro-ro passenger ship 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:

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

(g) ‘Stockholm Agreement’ means the Agreement concluded at Stockholm on 28 February 1996 in pursuance of SOLAS 95 Conference Resolution 14 ‘Regional agreements on specific stability requirements for ro-ro passenger ships’, adopted on 29 November 1995;

(h) ‘administration of flag State’ means the competent authorities of the State whose flag the ro-ro passenger ship is entitled to fly;

(i) ‘Port State’ means a Member State to or from whose ports a ro-ro passenger ship is engaged on a regular service;

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

(k) ‘specific stability requirements’ means, when used as a collective term, the stability requirements referred to in Article 6;

(l) ‘significant wave height’ (‘hs’) is the average height of the highest third of wave heights observed over a given period;

(m) ‘residual freeboard’ (‘fr’) is the minimum distance between the damaged ro-ro deck and the final waterline at the location of the damage, without taking into account the additional effect of the sea water accumulated on the damaged ro-ro deck;

(n) ‘company’ means the owner of a ro-ro passenger ship or any other organisation or person, such as the manager or the bareboat charterer, who has assumed responsibility for operating the passenger ship from the owner.