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Council Directive 96/98/EC (repealed)Show full title
Council Directive 96/98/EC of 20 December 1996 on marine equipment (repealed)
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Article 1.The purpose of this Directive shall be to enhance safety...
Article 2.For the purposes of this Directive: (a) ‘conformity-assessment procedures’ shall...
Article 3.(1) This Directive shall apply to equipment for use on...
Article 4.Each Member State or the organizations acting on its behalf...
Article 5.(1) Equipment listed in Annex A.1 that is placed on board...
Article 6.(1) No Member State shall prohibit the placing on the...
Article 8.(1) In the case of a new ship which, irrespective...
Article 9.(1) Member States shall notify the Commission and the other...
Article 10.(1) The conformity-assessment procedure, details of which are listed in...
Article 11.(1) Equipment referred to in Annex A.1 which complies with...
Article 12.(1) Notwithstanding Article 6, each Member State may take the...
Article 13.(1) Where a Member State ascertains by inspection or otherwise...
Article 14.(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 5, in exceptional circumstances...
Article 15.(1) Notwithstanding Article 5, a flag State administration may permit...
Article 16.(1) Where equipment needs to be replaced in a port...
Article 17.This Directive may be amended in accordance with the procedure...
Article 18.(1) The Commission shall be assisted by the Committee on...
Article 19.The Member States shall offer each other mutual assistance with...
Article 20.(1) Member States shall adopt and publish the laws, regulations...
Article 21.This Directive shall enter into force on the day of...
Article 22.This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Circ., Circular. COLREG, International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea....
EQUIPMENT FOR WHICH DETAILED TESTING STANDARDS ALREADY EXIST IN INTERNATIONAL...
Notes applicable to the whole of Annex A.1
a) General: in addition to the testing standards specifically mentioned, a...
b) Column 5: Where IMO Resolutions are cited, only the testing...
c) Column 5: International conventions and testing standards apply in their...
d) Column 5: Where two sets of identifying standards are separated...
e) Column 6: Where module H appears, module H plus design-examination...
f) The requirements laid down in this Annex shall be without...
Modules for conformity assessment
EC TYPE-EXAMINATION (MODULE B)
1. A notified body must ascertain and attest that a specimen,...
2. The application for the EC type-examination must be lodged by...
3. The technical documentation must make it possible to assess the...
5. Where the type meets the provisions of the relevant international...
6. The applicant must inform the notified body that holds the...
7. Each notified body must, on request, provide flag Member State...
8. The other notified bodies may receive copies of the EC...
9. The manufacturer or his authorized representative established within the Community...
PRODUCTION-QUALITY ASSURANCE (MODULE D)
1. A manufacturer who satisfies the obligations of point 2 must ensure...
2. The manufacturer must operate an approved quality system for production,...
4. Surveillance under the responsibility of the notified body
5. The manufacturer must, for at least 10 years after the...
6. Each notified body must, on request, provide flag Member State...
PRODUCT-QUALITY ASSURANCE (MODULE E)
1. A manufacturer who satisfies the obligations of point 2 ensures...
2. The manufacturer must operate an approved quality system for final...
4. Surveillance under the responsibility of the notified body
5. The manufacturer must, for at least 10 years after the last...
6. Each notified body must on request provide flag Member State...
FULL-QUALITY ASSURANCE (MODULE H)
1. A manufacturer who satisfies the obligations of paragraph 2 must...
2. The manufacturer must operate an approved quality system for design,...
4. EC surveillance under the responsibility of the notified body
5. The manufacturer must, for at least 10 years after the...
6. Each notified body must, on request, provide flag Member State...
7.1. The manufacturer must lodge an application for examination of the...
7.2 The application must make it possible to understand the design,...
7.3. The notified body must examine the application and where the...
7.4. The applicant must keep the notified body that has issued...
7.5. The notified bodies must, on request, provide flag Member State...
Technical documentation to be supplied by the manufacturer to the notified body
The technical documentation referred to in Annex B must comprise...
The technical documentation must make it possible to understand the...
a general description of the type, conceptual-design, build standard and...
Where appropriate, the design documentation must contain the following:
attestations relating to the equipment incorporated in the appliance, attestations...
Minimum criteria to be taken into account by Member States for the designation of bodies
1. Notified bodies must fulfil the requirements of the relevant EN...
3. A notified body must be established within the territory of...
4. Where type-approvals are issued by a notified body on behalf...
A notified body is entitled to perform conformity-assessment procedures for...
A notified body may perform conformity-assessment procedures in any Member...
If a subsidiary of a notified body performs conformity-assessment procedures,...
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