Document ID: 32001L0053

Commission Directive 2001/53/EC
of 10 July 2001
amending Council Directive 96/98/EC on marine equipment
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 80(2) thereof,
Having regard to Council Directive 96/98/EC of 20 December 1996 on marine equipment(1), as amended by Commission Directive 98/85/EC(2), and in particular Article 17, the first and second indents thereof,
Whereas:
(1) For the purposes of Directive 98/96/EC, the international conventions, including the 1974 SOLAS Convention, and testing standards are those, together with their amendments, in force on the date of the adoption of that Directive.
(2) Amendments to the SOLAS Convention and to other international conventions and new testing standards have entered into force since the adoption of that Directive or will enter into force shortly.
(3) New rules regarding the equipment to be placed on board ships have been laid down by those instruments.
(4) Directive 96/98/EC should be amended accordingly.
(5) The measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee set up by Article 12 of Council Directive 93/75/EEC(3),
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
Article 1
Directive 96/98/EC is hereby amended as follows:
1. Article 2 is amended as follows:
In points (c), (d) and (n), the words "on 1 January 1999" are replaced by "on 1 January 2001".
2. Annex A is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Directive.
Article 2
Equipment listed as "new item" under the heading "item designation" of Annex A.1, and manufactured before the date referred to in Article 3(1), may be placed on the market and on board a Community ship, the certificates of which were issued by or on behalf of a Member State in accordance with international conventions, during the two years following that date if it was manufactured in accordance with procedures for type-approval already in force within the territory of that Member State before the date of the adoption of this Directive.
Article 3
1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive not later than six months after its date of entry into force. They shall forthwith notify the Commission thereof.
When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.
2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the provisions of national law, which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
Article 4
This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
Done at Brussels, 10 July 2001.

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