Recreational Craft Directive RCD  2013/53/EU

Recreational Craft Directive 94/25 / EC / as amended by 2003/44 / EC is designed to meet the free flow of pleasure boats in the EU market, and by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Electrotechnical Standardization Committee (CENELEC) developed regulations. It is based on security as the main purpose of the enactment of the regulations. A number of harmonized standards have been refined under the instruction of the pleasure boat, and each coordination standard corresponds to a class of products. The manufacturer is required to comply with the requirements of Directive 94/25 / EC and the corresponding harmonized standards for CE certification of certain types of products for pleasure vessels. The manufacturer's product is certified by a certification body (NB) authorized by the European Commission and, if required, the EC Declaration of Conformity and the CE mark on the product - the manufacturer's product The EU market is free to circulate.

1) Recreational Craft Directive range:

It is limited to recreational boats - ships engaged in non-commercial tourism, recreation and other activities, including ships engaged in the activities of the whole ship leasing.

The hull length is between 2.5m and 24m

 2) Which products can implement RCD instructions?

Yachts and partially completed yachts

Motorboat (water jet propeller)

Equipment or components for the above yachts - including ignition protection devices for inboard engines; anti-accident protection devices for outboard motors; steering wheels, steering gears, cable assemblies; fixed installation of fuel tanks, fuel pipes; hatch covers, The

Exhaust Emissions - propulsion engines installed on yachts or motorboats

Noise emission 

3) The following products are excluded from the RCD Directive

Only for the race, training, experiment, business purpose of the ship

Rowing, rubber boats and so on

Surfboards, including power surfboards

Only the use of the ship instead of the market

Submersible

hovercraft

Hydrofoil

Steam powered boats, such as steam, powered by coal, wood, oil, natural gas, etc.

Amphibious ship

4) yacht design classification

Category A-Ocean Type: The ship is designed for long-term maritime navigation and is able to withstand winds more than 8, 4 meters above sea level and above, and most of the ship's supplies are self-sufficient.

Category B-Sea Type: The ship is designed for maritime navigation and is able to withstand sea conditions within 8 (including 8) and 4 meters (including 4 meters) of wind.

Category C-Coastal Type: Ships are designed for offshore waters, large bays, bay bays, lakes and river basins. Able to withstand the wind 6 (including 6) within the waves 2 meters (including 2 meters) within the situation.

Category D-type protection: the ship is designed for small lakes, rivers and canals, able to withstand the wind 4 (including 4) within the wave height of 0.5 meters (including 0.5 meters) within the water situation.

5) Yacht CE certification mode

Authentication mode:

- Factory internal production control (A mode)

- Factory internal production control plus test (Aa mode)

- EC type test (B mode)

- Type match (C mode)

- Product quality assurance (D mode)

- Product inspection (F mode)

- Single product inspection (G mode)

- Total Quality Control (H Mode)

6) On-site inspection

According to the yacht instructions under the applicable standards for testing the product, such as

ISO 6185 EU certification requirements for inflatable boats

ISO 12217-2 Requirements for the assessment of the stability and floatability of sailboats

ISO 12217-1 and ISO 12217-3 requirements for the assessment of the stability and buoyancy of non - sailboats

ISO 21487 Inspection standards and requirements for permanently installed fuel tanks on yachts

ISO 14509 Inspection standards and requirements for yacht engine noise emissions

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Note: Depending on the yacht design category and the certification model, the certification process and the required submission of technical documents will vary.

New RCD 2013/53/EU

Implementation schedules

2014-01-17 New Directive to enter legal procedures

2016-01-17 The new directive is in force and you can apply now

2017-01-17 The old order is officially void and the new directive is enforced

Major changes:

- Noun changes, such as boat no longer appear in the instruction, use the new term watercraft. The corresponding hull code HIN becomes WIN;

- Yacht instructions exclusion increased the amphibious ship;

- Increased the definition of importers, individual importers, distributors and the distinction between responsibilities;

- Increased PCA mode and its operational processes;

- Aa mode changes to A1 mode, increase the C1 mode, that is, on the basis of the original C model to increase the institutional intervention process;

- Improvements and corrections have been made from the requirements of hull structure, handling performance, installation requirements, exhaust emissions, noise emissions and other requirements