Given that the majority of journeys of inland waterway vessels are of an international nature, RIS should be focused on those inland waterways of Member States that form part of the TEN-T and that are directly connected to another Member State’s inland waterways that also form part of the TEN-T, and which are thus of high importance for the Union. Member States should be able to continue extending, on a voluntary basis, the RIS requirements to parts of their inland waterways network other than those that form part of the TEN-T to account for national specificities. In a cross-border context, it should also be possible for one of the Member States concerned to provide RIS. The Member States’ competent authorities should cooperate with a view to providing RIS on cross-border inland waterways.
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