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Positive the outcome of a control of suitability of the legislation of the EU in matter of safety of the fleeting ships
It is carried out relatively to the sun ships employed in national traffics, excluding incidents as those been necessary to "Norman Atlantic" and "Costa Concordia"
October 16, 2015
Today the EU commission has been profitable notices the results of a control of suitability (REFIT) of the legislation of the EU in matter of safety of the fleeting ships, control that has confirmed the effectiveness of the communitarian norm in matter. The procedure previews the control of the suitability regarding relative directive 2009/45/CE to the dispositions and safety regulations for the fleeting ships, after which requisitioned concerning directive 2003/25/CE specific of stability for fleeting the ships ro-ro used after the transport, to relative directive 1999/35/CE to a system of obligatory visits for the exercise in conditions of safety of ferries ro-ro and fast fleeting units used after services of line and to relative directive 98/41/CE after the recording of the people on board of the fleeting ships that carry out travels from and towards the ports of the Member States of the Community.
It is necessary to evidence that the control is carried out relatively to the ships that travelled between ports of a same State EU. Therefore the survey does not include important incidents as those been necessary to the ferry Norman Atlantic in December 2014 and the cruise ship Costa Concordia in January 2012 as the units were employed in international travels and therefore not falling back in the dispositions and safety regulations harmonized for the fleeting ships of directive 2009/45/EC that are applied to ships of any flag used after the single national travels.
The suitability control has evidenced that of the 408 incidents been necessary in last the four years to ships that travelled between ports of the same State EU a solo has caused the dead women of a passenger.
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