#Consultation - The European Commission has launched an online consultation to collect views of stakeholders on the extent to which common EU rules could facilitate the internal market for passenger ships below 24 meters in length.

The results of this consultation will inform the forthcoming proposal of the Commission for a Council Recommendation on safety goals and functional requirements for these types of ships.

This consultation is targeted at economic operators involved in building of and trading in small passenger ships, such as shipyards, designers, owners and operators thereof (all other stakeholders can contribute to this consultation if they wish).

It complements the technical work steered by the European Maritime Safety Agency and carried out together with national experts and stakeholders in the framework of the Passenger Ship Safety Expert sub-group.

The consultation is available from the European Commission website HERE. The deadline for responses is Thursday 30 November.