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Passenger ships, irrespective of size, and all ships of 300 gross tonnage and upwards built on or after 1 July 2002 which call at a port of a Member State of the Community are subject to the carrying requirement laid down in Article 6.
Passenger ships, irrespective of size, and all ships of 300 gross tonnage and upwards built prior to 1 July 2002 which call at a port of a Member State of the Community are subject to the carrying requirement laid down in Article 6 according to the following timetable:
passenger ships: not later than 1 July 2003;
tankers: not later than the first survey for safety equipment after 1 July 2003;
ships, other than passenger ships and tankers, of 50 000 gross tonnage and upwards: not later than 1 July 2004;
ships, other than passenger ships and tankers, of 10 000 gross tonnage and upwards but less than 50 000 gross tonnage: not later than 1 July 2005 or, as regards ships engaged in international voyages, any earlier date decided within the framework of the IMO;
ships, other than passenger ships and tankers, of 3 000 gross tonnage and upwards but less than 10 000 gross tonnage: not later than 1 July 2006 or, as regards ships engaged in international voyages, any earlier date decided upon within the framework of the IMO;
ships, other than passenger ships and tankers, of 300 gross tonnage and upwards but less than 3 000 gross tonnage: not later than 1 July 2007 or, as regards ships engaged in international voyages, any earlier date decided upon within the framework of the IMO.
Member States may exempt passenger ships below 300 gross tonnage engaged in domestic trade from the application of the requirements concerning AIS laid down in this Annex.
Fishing vessels with a length of more than 15 metres overall are subject to the carrying requirement laid down in Article 6a according to the following timetable:
fishing vessels of overall length 24 metres and upwards but less than 45 metres: not later than 31 May 2012 ,
fishing vessels of overall length 18 metres and upwards but less than 24 metres: not later than 31 May 2013 ,
fishing vessels of overall length exceeding 15 metres but less than 18 metres: not later than 31 May 2014 .
New built fishing vessels of overall length exceeding 15 metres are subject to the carrying requirement laid down in Article 6a as from 30 November 2010 .]
Textual Amendments
passenger ships built on or after 1 July 2002, not later than 1 July 2002;
ro-ro passenger ships built before 1 July 2002, not later than the first survey on or after 1 July 2002;
passenger ships other than ro-ro passenger ships, built before 1 July 2002, not later than 1 January 2004;
Ships other than passenger ships, of 3 000 gross tonnage and upwards, built on or after 1 July 2002, not later than 5 August 2002.
cargo ships of 20 000 gross tonnage and upwards, not later than the date fixed by the IMO, or, in the absence of a decision in IMO, not later than 1 January 2007;
cargo ships of 3 000 gross tonnage and upwards but less than 20 000 gross tonnage, not later than the date fixed by the IMO, or, in the absence of a decision in IMO, not later than 1 January 2008.