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Communication from the Commission - TRIS/(2024) 2977
Directive (EU) 2015/1535
Notification: 2024/0606/FR
Notification of a draft text from a Member State
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MSG: 20242977.EN
1. MSG 001 IND 2024 0606 FR EN 05-11-2024 FR NOTIF
2. France
3A. Ministères économiques et financiers
Direction générale des entreprises
SCIDE/SQUALPI/PNRP
Bât. Sieyès -Teledoc 143
61, Bd Vincent Auriol
75703 PARIS Cedex 13
d9834.france@finances.gouv.fr
3B. Ministère chargé de la Mer et de la Pêche
Direction générale des affaires maritimes et de l'aquaculture
DGAMPA/SFM/STEN
Tour Séquoïa
1 Pl. Carpeaux, 9
92800 Puteaux
4. 2024/0606/FR - T20T - Sea and river and navigation on inland waterways
5. Decree on various provisions relating to artificial islands, installations, floating structures, and professional vessels
6. Artificial islands, installations, floating structures
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8. Article 63 of Law No 2023-175 of 10 March 2023 on the acceleration of renewable energy production (APER) gives artificial islands, installations and floating structures a specific status in all waters under French sovereignty and jurisdiction, so that they are no longer considered to be vessels. It lays down its own control and safety regime and harmonises the law applicable in the territorial sea and the exclusive economic zone.
The draft decree contains the implementing measures for this law and makes it possible to define its regulatory framework.
It precisely defines what is covered by artificial islands, installations, and floating structures, as well as the regime applicable to them, such as registration or pre-commissioning controls. Since the APER law has thus specified that artificial islands, installations and floating structures may be subject to controls to ensure compliance with the rules intended to ensure maritime safety, operational safety and pollution prevention, this draft text lays down the conditions under which the approval of the bodies in charge of controls is issued, the obligations to which they are subject, the detailed rules for the control they carry out on the installations and the conditions under which they transmit the results of the control to the administration.
The Decree refers to the Order, which is the relevant standard level, for the task of laying down numerous technical provisions, such as the methods, scope, and techniques for carrying out such controls and, where appropriate, the frequency of controls.
Other texts are also amended — the Decree on the one-stop shop of the French International Register, the Commercial Code, and the Transport Code — to provide for registration and ownership powers.
9. Article 5 of the draft decree, which defines the characteristics that floating devices must have in order to qualify as artificial islands, installations and floating structures and thus benefit from the legal regime defined by the same provision, must be notified to the European Commission under Directive (EU) 2015/1535.
On the one hand, these artificial islands, installations and floating structures are likely to fall within the category of ‘products’ within the meaning of the Directive. On the other hand, the prohibition of installation on the natural public maritime domain for installations which fulfil certain conditions and, more generally, the pre-commissioning controls of these artificial islands, installations and floating structures may constitute a ‘technical regulation’ within the meaning of the Directive. Failure to comply with the criteria thus laid down may affect the conditions under which they are used in a Member State.
10. References to basic texts: There are no reference texts
11. No
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13. No
14. No
15. No
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TBT aspects: No
SPS aspects: No
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European Commission
Contact point Directive (EU) 2015/1535
email: grow-dir2015-1535-central@ec.europa.eu
