The scope of this Directive should be confined to ships providing regular ro-ro passenger ship and high-speed passenger craft services between ports within a Member State or between a port in a Member State and a port in a third country where the flag of the vessel is the same as the Member State in question.
Ba cheart raon feidhme na Treorach seo a theorannú do longa a sholáthraíonn seirbhísí rialta long paisinéirí róró agus árthaí paisinéirí ardluais idir calafoirt laistigh de Bhallstát nó idir calafort i mBallstát agus calafort i dtríú tír i gcás inarb ionann bratach an tsoithigh agus bratach an Bhallstáit i gceist.