Recital 1

(1)The Union law relating to a system of mandatory surveys for the safe operation of regular ro-ro passenger ship and high-speed passenger craft services dates from 1999. It is now necessary to update that law in order to take account of the progress made in the implementation of the port State control regime put in place by Directive 2009/16/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ³ as well as experience gained during the operation of the Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control, signed in Paris on 26 January 1982.