2. The liability of the carrier for the loss of or damage to vehicles including all luggage carried in or on the vehicle shall in no case exceed 12 700 units of account per vehicle, per carriage.

If carriage governed by a single contract is performed by several successive carriers, each carrier, by the very act of taking over the luggage with the luggage registration voucher or the vehicle with the carriage voucher, shall become a party to the contract of carriage in respect of the forwarding of luggage or the carriage of vehicles, in accordance with the terms of the luggage registration voucher or of the carriage voucher and shall assume the obligations arising therefrom.

The Commission already in year 2001 proposed a temporary defensive aid to help EU shipyards face the unfair Korean competition in market segments particularly hit, such as product-, chemical- and LNG-tankers and containerships.

Scope covering container ships; product and chemical tankers and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) tankers;

Only oil product tankers and bulk carriers have seen increased ordering, due to the replacement of old tonnage following new European Union maritime safety regulations and strong domestic demand in the Far East.

extends the scope of the Directive to road transport operators using vehicles with maximum authorised weights (MAWs) exceeding 3,5 tonnes, subject to a specific derogation for undertakings using vehicles with MAWs between 3,5 and 6 tonnes for local, short-distance haulage; lays down more stringent requirements with regard to good repute, namely that this condition is not or is no longer satisfied, in particular, where the operator has been convicted of serious offences against certain rules relating to transport, including offences relating to rules for the protection of the environment and other rules concerning professional liability ...[+++]; increases the amounts which must be available to the undertaking to fulfil the requirements relating to financial standing: the undertaking must have available capital and reserves of at least ECU 9 000 when only one vehicle is used and ECU 5 000 for each additional vehicle, existing undertakings must fulfil the requirement of financial standing two years after the deadline for the implementation of the Directive; makes provision for a more detailed examination procedure and the updating and extension of the list of examination subjects, introduces a harmonised minimum level of knowledge required in each subject and retains different examinations depending on whether the applicant wishes to carry out national or international transport operations; retains the measure laid down by Directive 96/26/EC on permanent exemption from examination for applicants who provide proof of at least five years' practical experience, but adds the condition that applicants may be subject to a test, the arrangements for which shall be determined by the Member States in accordance with the list set out in the Directive; as a transitional measure, allows a Member State to require any natural person who holds a certificate of professional competence issued by another Member State when the holder was normally resident in the first Member State to p ...