Article 1

1. This Directive shall apply to recreational craft, partly completed boats and components referred to in Annex II when separate and when installed. 2. 'Recreational craft' shall mean any boat of any type, regardless of the means of propulsion, from 2,5 to 24 m hull length, measured according to the appropriate harmonized standards intended for sports and leisure purposes. The fact that the same boat could be used for charter or for recreational boating training shall not prevent it being covered by this Directive when it is placed on the market for recreational purposes. 3. The following shall be excluded from the scope of this Directive: craft intended solely for racing, including rowing racing boats and training rowing boats labelled as such by the manufacturer; canoes and kayaks, gondolas and pedalos; sailing surfboards; powered surfboards, personal watercraft and other similar powered craft; original, and individual replicas of, historical craft designed before 1950, built predominantly with the original materials and labelled as such by the manufacturer; experimental craft, provided that they are not subsequently placed on the Community market; craft built for own use, provided that they are not subsequently placed on the Community market during a period of five years; craft specifically intended to be crewed and to carry passengers for commercial purposes, without prejudice to paragraph 2, in particular those defined in Directive 82/716/EEC of 4 October 1982 laying down technical requirements for inland waterway vessels (2), regardless of the number of passengers; submersibles; air cushion vehicles; hydrofoils.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-02 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.