{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-18/article-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-18/article-13.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2009/18",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2009/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 establishing the fundamental principles governing the investigation of accidents in the maritime transport sector and amending Council Directive 1999/35/EC and Directive 2002/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-18",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Preservation of evidence",
  "text": "Member States shall adopt measures to ensure that the parties concerned by casualties and incidents under the scope of this Directive make every effort to:\n(a) save all information from charts, log books, electronic and magnetic recording and video tapes, including information from VDRs and other electronic devices relating to the period preceding, during and after an accident;\n(b) prevent the overwriting or other alteration of such information;\n(c) prevent interference with any other equipment which might reasonably be considered pertinent to the safety investigation of the accident;\n(d) collect and preserve all evidence expeditiously for the purposes of the safety investigations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2009/18/article/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:15.063522+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}