Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/729 of 20 April 2017 on a request for derogation by the Republic of Croatia in accordance with Article 9(4) of Council Directive 98/41/EC on the registration of persons sailing on board passenger ships operating to or from ports of the Member States of the Community (notified under document C(2017) 2437)

The derogation request of the Republic of Croatia pursuant to Article 9(4) of Directive 98/41/EC regarding recording of all information specified in Article 5(1) of this Directive for persons on board all passenger ships in regular service sailing on the routes listed below (including vice versa routes), is hereby approved: (1) Zadar-Ist and Zadar-Olib routes on the ferry line ‘Zadar-Premuda/Mali Lošinj’; (2) Split-Hvar, Hvar-Prigradica and Hvar-Korčula routes on the high-speed line ‘Korčula-(Prigradica)-Hvar-Split’; (3) Zadar-Ist and Zapuntel-Zadar routes on the high-speed line ‘Ist-Molat-Zadar’; (4) Split-Bol route on the high-speed line ‘Jelsa-Bol-Split’; (5) Split-Hvar route on the high-speed line ‘Split-(Milna)-Hvar’; (6) Split-Hvar route on the high-speed line ‘Lastovo-Vela Luka-Hvar-Split’; (7) Rijeka-Rab route on the high-speed line ‘Novalja-Rab-Rijeka’; (8) Split-Vela Luka route on the ferry line ‘Lastovo-Vela Luka-Split’; (9) Split-Stari Grad route on the ferry line ‘Split-Stari Grad’; (10) Vis-Split route on the ferry line ‘Vis-Split’; (11) Mali Lošinj-Cres and Cres-Rijeka routes on the high-speed line ‘Mali Lošinj-Ilovik-Susak-Unije-Martinšćica-Cres-Rijeka’; (12) Premuda-Zadar route on the high-speed line ‘Olib-Silba-Premuda-Zadar’; (13) Vis-Split and Hvar-Split routes on the high-speed line ‘Vis-Hvar-Split’; (14) Dubrovnik-Sobra and Korčula-Lastovo routes on the high-speed line ‘Dubrovnik-Šipanska luka-Sobra-Polače-Korčula-Lastovo’.

This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Croatia.