Passenger ships: safety rules and standards. Recast

The European Parliament adopted, by 662 votes to 12 with 11 abstentions, under 1st reading of the codecision procedure, a legislative resolution approving the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on safety rules and standards for passenger ships (recast). The report had been tabled for consideration in plenary by József SZÁJER (EPP-ED, HU), on behalf of the Legal Affairs Committee. The Commission proposal was approved as adapted to the recommendations of the Consultative Working Party of the Legal Services of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission.  According to the Consultative Working Party, the proposal in question does not include any substantive amendments other than those identified as such in the proposal and, as regards the codification of the unchanged provisions of the earlier acts together with those amendments, the proposal contains a straightforward codification of the existing texts, without any change in their substance.