The Office states that the number of passengers transported by the first group of vessels is much higher than the number of passengers transported by the second group of vessels.

An unusual level of luxury in this class: the owner’s cabin.

Superior category ships have cabins with their own bathroom/ toilette and in most cases are bigger and more comfortable than standard category ships.

A: A category boats have cabins with their own bathroom/ toillete and in most cases are bigger and more comfortable than B category boats.

Senator LaPierre: There is a category of boats including those used for pleasure that are not used at all for commercial purposes.

It is appropriate, within certain limits and according to the category of vessel concerned, to determine the period of validity of Community inland navigation certificates in each specific case.

The second group of day trip vessels in Switzerland are those which do not follow a scheduled service, but are used for day trip tours, for entirely touristic purposes.

It is appropriate, within certain limits and according to the category of vessel concerned, to determine the period of validity of Community inland navigation certificates in each specific case.

This was especially true for the largest vessel size class, tankers with a load capacity of 2,000 tonnes and more, which were affected by the low water levels.

In the case of the West of Scotland, this mistake led to a 10 per cent reduction, namely, from 282 to 252, of the fishing days allocated for the relevant category of vessels.

Capacity utilisation remained high for the vessel categories with up to 1,000 tonnes of loading capacity, and for the vessel category from 1,000 to 2,000 tonnes, despite the higher water levels.