Maritime safety: roll-on/roll-off (Ro-ro) ferries and high speed passenger craft, conditions for the operation

The Commission is of the opinion that the substance of the common position is acceptable, since it respects the basic principles of the original proposal and provides substantial added value by its clarifications and in particular by its additional provisions which enhance the envisaged mandatory survey regime and the accident investigation rights and obligations of Member States. Furthermore, the substance of the amendments adopted by the European Parliament and incorporated in the amended Commission proposal have been duly taken into account by the Council in this common position..�