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CRS is a heritor of ship classification activities at the eastern Adriatic coast.
The Austrian Veritas was founded in this area, already in 1858, as the third classification society in the world.
In 1918 the Austrian Veritas changed its name into the Adriatic Veritas and was acting as such till year 1921.
CRS, acting till 1992 as JR (Yugoslav Register of Shipping), was founded in 1949.
CRS Head Office is situated in Split, Republic of Croatia.
CRS was associated member of International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) from April 1973 till 2004, and from May 2011 CRS gained the status of IACS Member
CRS is the recognised classification society (RO) pursuant to the requirements of the Regulation (EC) No. 391/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules and standards for ship inspection and survey organisations.
CRS is the conformity assessment notified body notified under provisions of the Council Directive 94/25/EC relating to recreational craft, as amended by Directive 2003/44/EC.
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CRS is the conformity assessments notified body notified under provisions of the Council Directive 96/98/EC on marine equipment, as amended.
CRS is the conformity assessments notified body notified under provisions of the Council Directive 97/23/EC (PED) on pressure equipment.
CRS is the conformity assessments notified body notified under provisions of the Council Directive 2009/105/EC (SPVD) on simple pressure vessels.
CRS is certified by British Standards Institution (BSI) confirming that CRS operates the Quality Management System which complies with the requirements of BS EN 9001:2008 for the scope of classification and statutory certification of ships, statutory certification of marine equipment and recreational crafts, and BSI Annual Statement of Compliance confirming that CRS Quality Management System complies with IACS Quality System Certification Scheme.
From Wikipedia’s article on Croatian Register of Shipping, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4