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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2010-36/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2010/36",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Directive 2010/36/EU of 1 June 2010 amending Directive 2009/45/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on safety rules and standards for passenger ships (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2010-36",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Directive 2010/36/EU\nof 1 June 2010\namending Directive 2009/45/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on safety rules and standards for passenger ships\n(Text with EEA relevance)\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Directive 2009/45/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 on safety rules and standards for passenger ships, and in particular Article 10, thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nDirective 2009/45/EC has codified and recast Council Directive 98/18/EC of 17 March 1998 on safety rules and standards for passenger ships and its subsequent substantive amendments in the interests of clarity.\n(2)\nFor the purpose of Directive 2009/45/EC, the international conventions, including the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS Convention) and other international codes and resolutions, for the safety rules and standards for passenger vessels, were in force on the date of the adoption of that Directive.\n(3)\nChanges have been made to relevant international instruments, such as the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) conventions, protocols, codes and resolutions since the last substantial amendment of Directive 98/18/EC by Commission Directive 2003/75/EC.\n(4)\nAccount should be taken of these new international instruments in the relevant Articles and Annexes to Directive 2009/45/EC.\n(5)\nDirective 2009/45/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.\n(6)\nThe measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Safe Seas, set up pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 2009/2002 of the European Parliament and the Council,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 163, 25.6.2009, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 144, 15.5.1998, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 190, 30.7.2003, p. 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ L 324, 29.11.2002, p. 1."
    }
  ],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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