CHAPTER 3

VESSEL IDENTIFICATION, INSPECTIONS AND ALTERED TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

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Article 26
1
Following the expiry of transitional provisions to technical requirements laid down in Annex II, the Commission may adopt implementing acts allowing derogations from the technical requirements laid down in that Annex which were subject to those transitional provisions, where those requirements are technically difficult to apply or where their application might entail disproportionate costs.
Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 33(2).
2
The competent authorities of a Member State shall specify any applicable derogations referred to in paragraph 1 in the Union inland navigation certificate.