GREECE

BY ALAN OSBORNTHE EUROPEAN Commission has decided to bring an action against Greece in the European Court of Justice over its interpretation of the EU's maritime cabotage regulation of 1992 and its application to the number of crew on board cruise and other vessels engaged in services between the Greek islands.In principle the rules applying to crews on such vessels are set by the country in which the vessel is registered. However an article in theEuropean Regulation allows EU Member States to impose certain of their own rules on vessels registered in other ...


Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.