The progressive alignment between the EU technical prescriptions directive (Directive 2006/87/EC laying down technical requirements for inland waterway vessels) with CCNR requirements, as well as the adoption of the Seventh Additional Protocol to the Act of Mannheim which gives CCNR the competence to recognize the ship &apos; s certificates from the EU and third countries, allowed the official recognition by the CCNR in May 2008 of the equivalence between the EU requirements and the CCNR Vessel Inspection Rules.
The progressive alignment between the EU technical prescriptions directive (Directive 2006/87/EC laying down technical requirements for inland waterway vessels) with CCNR requirements, as well as the adoption of the Seventh Additional Protocol to the Act of Mannheim which gives CCNR the competence to recognize the ship &apos; s certificates from the EU and third countries, allowed the official recognition by the CCNR in May 2008 of the equivalence between the EU requirements and the CCNR Vessel Inspection Rules.