Article 2
Where equipment listed as ‘new item’ in column 1 of Annex A.1 of Directive 96/98/EC or as having been transferred from Annex A.2 to Annex A.1 of that Directive was manufactured before the date referred to in Article 3(1) of this Directive in accordance with procedures for type-approval already in force before that date within the territory of a Member State, such equipment may be placed on the market and on board a Community ship during the two years following the said date.