To this purpose, it merely obliges Member Sta
tes not to withhold ships registered in other Member States from registration in their own
register for technical reasons arising from four maritime safety and envir
onmental protection international conventions: the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, (SOLAS), the 1966 International Convention on Load Lines (LL 66), the 1969 International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships and the 1973 International Convention for th
...[+++]e Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL).