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Transport by sea. The Court of Justice rules on the liability of the organiser of a package travel for the latter’s proper performance
Where a cruise has the characteristics of a “tourism package” for the purpose of Directive 90/314/EEC, actions for damages relating to personal injury sustained by a passenger on board the cruise ship during carriage by sea, within the meaning of Regulation (EC) No 392/2009, are to be governed by the liability regime of the maritime carrier providing the cruise with that ship, as laid down in that regulation
The Court of Justice rules on the national legislation providing for the payment of a charge for the mandatory use of a vessel traffic services system depending on the length of the vessel concerned
Regulation (EEC) No 4055/86 precludes a national legislation providing that maritime traffic that is bound for designated ports of a Member State and that departs from ports situated in other Member States is subject to the payment, in respect of the mandatory use of the services of a vessel traffic services system, of a charge calculated solely on the basis of the length of the vessel, to the exclusion of any other factor, and from which maritime traffic between those designated ports is exempt, unless there is in fact a correlation between the cost of the services provided and the amount of that charge