Directive 2010/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

Article 2 Definitions

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.