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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2010-65/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2010/65",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2010/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 on reporting formalities for ships arriving in and/or departing from ports of the Member States and repealing Directive 2002/6/EC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2010-65",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply:\n(a) ‘reporting formalities’ means the information set out in the Annex which, in accordance with the legislation applicable in a Member State, must be provided for administrative and procedural purposes when a ship arrives in or departs from a port in that Member State;\n(b) ‘FAL Convention’ means the IMO Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic, adopted on 9 April 1965, as amended;\n(c) ‘FAL forms’ means the standardised forms, as provided for in the FAL Convention;\n(d) ‘ship’ means any seagoing vessel or craft;\n(e) ‘SafeSeaNet’ means the Union maritime information exchange system as defined in Directive 2002/59/EC;\n(f) ‘electronic transmission of data’ means the process of transmitting information that has been encoded digitally, using a revisable structured format which can be used directly for storage and processing by computers.",
  "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/2010/65/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:06.574533+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."
}