# 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), Article 2: Definitions

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

For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply:
(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;
(b) ‘FAL Convention’ means the IMO Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic, adopted on 9 April 1965, as amended;
(c) ‘FAL forms’ means the standardised forms, as provided for in the FAL Convention;
(d) ‘ship’ means any seagoing vessel or craft;
(e) ‘SafeSeaNet’ means the Union maritime information exchange system as defined in Directive 2002/59/EC;
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2010/65/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2010-65/article-2
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