Article 3gf Administering authority in respect of a shipping company
1. The administering authority in respect of a shipping company shall be:
(a) in the case of a shipping company registered in a Member State, the Member State in which the shipping company is registered;
(b) in the case of a shipping company that is not registered in a Member State, the Member State with the greatest estimated number of port calls from voyages performed by that shipping company in the preceding four monitoring years and falling within the scope set out in Article 3ga;
(c) in the case of a shipping company that is not registered in a Member State and that did not carry out any voyage falling within the scope set out in Article 3ga in the preceding four monitoring years, the Member State where a ship of the shipping company has started or ended its first voyage falling within the scope set out in that Article.
2. Based on the best available information, the Commission shall establish by means of implementing acts: