This Regulation shall apply to any international carriage within the meaning of point 9 of Article 1 of the Athens Convention and to carriage by sea within a single Member State on board ships of Classes A and B under Article 4 of Directive 98/18/EC, where:
the ship is flying the flag of or is registered in a Member State;
the contract of carriage has been made in a Member State; or
the place of departure or destination, according to the contract of carriage, is in a Member State.
Member States may apply this Regulation to all domestic sea-going voyages.