Article 2
1. Member States shall, to the extent required, lay down any necessary procedures for the issue of navigability licences. However, a Member State may exempt from this Directive vessels which do not leave the inland waterways of its territory. 2. Navigability licences shall be issued by the Member State in which the vessel is registered or has its home port or, failing that, by the Member State in which the owner of the vessel is domiciled. Any Member State may request another Member State to issue navigability licences for vessels operated by nationals of the former. Member States may delegate their powers to approved bodies. 3. Navigability licences shall be made out in one of the official languages of the institutions of the European Union; they shall provide at least the information and use the system of numbering specified in Annex I.