New Standards for Recreational and Personal Craft

By Costas Stamatiou, Elias Neocleous & Co LLC

The Department of Merchant Shipping recently announced the publication of the Essential Requirements (Recreational Craft and Personal Watercraft) Regulations 2017 in the Official Gazette. The regulations align Cyprus law with the EU Directive  on Recreational Craft and Personal Watercraft (2013/53/EU) and repeal  the Essential Requirements (Recreational Craft) Regulations 2003 to 2006.