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This Directive shall not apply to the following products: with regard to the design and construction requirements set out in Part A of Annex I: watercraft intended solely for racing, including rowing racing boats and training rowing boats, labelled as such by the manufacturer; canoes and kayaks designed to be propelled solely by human power, gondolas and pedalos; surfboards designed solely to be propelled by wind and to be operated by a person or persons standing; surfboards; original historical watercraft and individual replicas thereof designed before 1950, built predominantly with the original materials and labelled as such by the manufacturer; experimental watercraft, provided that they are not placed on the Union market; watercraft built for own use, provided that they are not subsequently placed on the Union market during a period of five years from the putting into service of the watercraft; watercraft specifically intended to be crewed and to carry passengers for commercial purposes, without prejudice to paragraph 3, regardless of the number of passengers; submersibles; air cushion vehicles; hydrofoils; external combustion steam powered watercraft, fuelled by coal, coke, wood, oil or gas; amphibious vehicles, i.e. wheeled or track-laying motor vehicles, which are able to operate both on water and on solid land; with regard to exhaust emission requirements set out in Part B of Annex I: propulsion engines installed or specifically intended for installation on the following products: watercraft intended solely for racing and labelled as such by the manufacturer; experimental watercraft, provided that they are not placed on the Union market; watercraft specifically intended to be crewed and to carry passengers for commercial purposes, without prejudice to paragraph 3, regardless of the number of passengers; submersibles; air cushion vehicles; hydrofoils; amphibious vehicles, i.e. wheeled or track-laying motor vehicles, which are able to operate both on water and on solid land; original and individual replicas of historical propulsion engines, which are based on a pre-1950 design, not produced in series and fitted on watercraft referred to in points (v) or (vii) of point (a); propulsion engines built for own use provided that they are not subsequently placed on the Union market during a period of five years from the putting into service of the watercraft; with regard to noise emission requirements referred to in Part C of Annex I: all watercraft referred to in point (b); watercraft built for own use, provided that they are notsubsequently placed on the Union market during a period of five years from the putting into service of the watercraft.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-05 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.