For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply:

1. (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;

2. (b)

   ‘FAL Convention’ means the IMO Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic, adopted on 9 April 1965, as amended;

3. (c)

   ‘FAL forms’ means the standardised forms, as provided for in the FAL Convention;

4. (d)

   ‘ship’ means any seagoing vessel or craft;

5. (e)

   ‘SafeSeaNet’ means the Union maritime information exchange system as defined in Directive 2002/59/EC;

6. (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.