15 5 See, respectively, Regulation (EC) No 1107/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of
5 July 2006 concerning the rights of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility when travelling by air (OJ 2006 L 204, p. 1); Regulation (EU) 2021/782 of the European Parliament and of the Council of
29 April 2021 on rail passengers’ rights and obligations (OJ 2021 L 172, p. 1); Regulation (EU)
No 1177/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 concerning the rights of passengers when travelling by sea and inland waterway and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 (OJ 2010 L 334, p. 1); and Regulation (EU) No 181/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of
16 February 2011 concerning the rights of passengers in bus and coach transport and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 (OJ 2011 L 55, p. 1).
16 C‑570/19, EU:C:2021:664; ‘Irish Ferries’.
17 7 See paragraphs 143 and 145 of that judgment and the case-law cited.
18 8 See paragraphs 106 and 107 of that judgment and the case-law cited. See also the Commission White Paper of 28 March 2011 entitled ‘Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area – Towards a competitive and resource efficient transport system’ (COM(2011) 144 final), in which the Commission stated that it was necessary to ‘develop a uniform interpretation of EU Law on passenger rights and a harmonised and effective enforcement, to ensure both a level playing field for the industry and a European standard of protection for the citizens’ (p. 23).
19 9 See paragraph 106 of that judgment. Concerning the interpretation of the concept of ‘extraordinary circumstances’ used in Regulation No 1177/2010 on maritime transport, the Court noted the EU legislature’s intention to adopt ‘a uniform approach’, by integrating the Court’s case-law on the rights of air transport passengers.
20 0 The question referred does not concern the further compensation provided for in Article 12 of that regulation.
21 1 Emphasis added.
22 2 The Court refers here to the second sentence of recital 22 of Regulation No 261/2004 and to its case- law, particularly the judgments of 13 October 2011, Sousa Rodríguez and Others (C‑83/10, EU:C:2011:652,
paragraph 44), and of 31 January 2013, McDonagh (C‑12/11, EU:C:2013:43, paragraph 51).