S.L. 234.37 Art. 7Port State control reporting.

(1) The Registrar-General shall report to the European Commission and to other Member States of the European Union, and shall inform the flag State concerned, the discovery of the issue of valid certificates by organisations acting on behalf of a flag State to a ship which does not fulfill the relevant requirements of the international conventions, or of any failure of a ship carrying a valid class certificate and relating to items covered by that certificate.

(2) Only cases of ships representing a serious threat to safety and the environment or showing evidence of particularly negligent behaviour of the organisations shall be reported for the purposes of this regulation.