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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.