Any Member State concerned may permit vessels definitively withdrawn from the market for use for purposes other than the carriage of goods, such as vessels for humanitarian purposes, museum ships, vessels for developing countries outside Europe or vessels placed at the disposal of non-profit-making bodies, to be counted as compensatory tonnage, i.e. treated as if they had been scrapped.
Vsaka zadevna država članica lahko dovoli, da se plovila, ki so dokončno umaknjena s tržišča za uporabo v druge namene kot je prevoz blaga, na primer plovila za humanitarne namene, muzejske ladje, plovila za države v razvoju zunaj Evrope ali plovila, dana na voljo neprofitnim organom, štejejo za kompenzacijsko tonažo, to pomeni, da se obravnavajo, kakor da so bila odstranjena.