# Council Directive 92/29/EEC of 31 March 1992 on the minimum safety and health requirements for improved medical treatment on board vessels, Article 1: Definitions

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For the purposes of this Directive, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(a) vessel: any vessel flying the flag of a Member State or registered under the plenary jurisdiction of a Member State, seagoing or estuary-fishing, publicly or privately owned, excluding:
inland navigation vessels,
warships,
pleasure boats used for non-commercial purposes and not manned by professional crews,
tugs operating in harbour areas.
Vessels shall be classed in three categories in accordance with Annex I;
(b) worker: any person carrying out an occupation on board a vessel, including trainees and apprentices, but excluding port pilots and shore personnel carrying out work on board a vessel at the quayside;
(c) Owner: the registered owner of a vessel unless that vessel has been chartered by demise or is managed, either wholly or in part, by a natural or legal person other than the registered owner under the terms of a management agreement; in that case the owner shall be construed as the demise charterer or natural or legal person managing the vessel as appropriate;
(d) medical supplies: medicines, medical equipment and antidotes, a non-exhaustive list of which is given in Annex II;
(e) antidote: a substance used to prevent or treat a harmful effect or effects, direct or indirect, of one or more substances included on the list of dangerous substances in Annex III.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1992/29/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-29/article-1
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