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Council Directive 93/68/EEC of 22 July 1993 amending… Article 2

Council Directive 93/68/EEC of 22 July 1993 amending… Article 2

Article 2

Directive 87/404/EEC is hereby amended as follows: 1. throughout the text, the term 'EC mark' is replaced by 'CE marking'; 2. in Article 5 the first paragraph is replaced by the following text: '1. Member States shall presume that vessels bearing the CE marking comply with all the provisions of this Directive, including the conformity assessment procedures referred to in Chapter II. Conformity of vessels with the national standards which transpose the harmonized standards the reference numbers of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Communities shall result in a presumption of conformity to the essential safety requirements referred to in Article 3. Member States shall publish the reference numbers of such national standards.'; 3. the following paragraph is added to Article 5: '3. (a) Where the vessels are subject to other Directives covering other aspects and which also provide for the affixing of the CE marking, the latter shall indicate that the vessels in question are also presumed to conform to the provisions of those other Directives. (b) However, where one or more of those Directives allow the manufacturer, during a transitional period, to choose which arrangements to apply, the CE marking shall indicate conformity only to the Directives applied by the manufacturer. In this case, particulars of the Directives applied, as published in the Official Journal of the European Communities, must be given in the documents, notices or instructions required by the Directives and accompanying such vessels.'; 4. In Article 9 the first paragraph is replaced by the following text: '1. Member States shall notify the Commission and the other Member States of the approved bodies which they have appointed to carry out the procedures referred to in Article 8 (1) and (2) together with the specific tasks which these bodies have been appointed to carry out and the identification numbers assigned to them beforehand by the Commission. The Commission shall publish in the Official Journal of the European Communities a list of the notified bodies with their identification numbers and the tasks for which they have been notified. The Commission shall ensure that this list is kept up to date.'; 5. Article 11 is replaced by the following text: 'EC verification

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