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the EU commission adopts proposed in order to ulteriorly increase safety of the fleeting ships
Introduced the obligation to record the data of the passengers in digital form being used harmonized administrative procedures
June 6, 2016
Today the EU commission has adopted a series of legislative proposals that have the objective to simplify and to improve the European norm on safety of the ships that transport passengers. "The update that we propose - has explained Violeta Bulc, European commissioner to the Transports - sight to improve safety making clarity on the norms and making the best use of the recent technological innovations. Moreover it is proposed to eliminate some redundant and onerous requirement".
They are the three main modifications to the current norms adopted from the Commission. The first proposal of amendment of directive 98/41 introduces the obligation to record the data of the passengers in digital form being used harmonized administrative procedures, that is the established national only interface with directive 2010/65 on the formality of declaration of the ships, and previews also flexibility for those operators who carry out marine services short beam.
The second one introduces variations to the directive 2009/45 that fixed dispositions and safety regulations for the fleeting ships and clarifies that the ships constructed in aluminum must be certifyd such directive second and to satisfy requirement of protection against fires; moreover it previews to exclude the boats of inferior length to the 24 meters from the scope of the directive.
The third proposal replaces and repeals the relative directive 1999/35 to a system of obligatory visits for the exercise in conditions of safety of ferries ro-ro and fleeting fast units used after line services eliminating overlaps between various systems of inspection.
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