Council Decision (EU) 2026/1099

means any right whatsoever and howsoever arising which may be asserted against a ship, whether by means of arrest, attachment or otherwise, a nd includes a maritime lien, lien, encumbrance, right of use or right of retention but does not include a mortgage or hypothèque;

means title free and clear of any mortgage or hypothèque and of any charge;

means any charge that is recognised as a maritime lien or privilège maritime on a ship under applicable law;

means any mortgage or hypothèque that is effected on a ship and registered in the State in whose register of ships or equivalent register the ship is registered;

means any person to whom the ship is sold in the judicial sale;

means any charge that is registered in the register of ships or equivalent register in which the ship is registered or in any different register in which mortgages or hypothèques are registered;

means any ship or other vessel registered in a register that is open to public inspection that may be the subject of an arrest or other similar measure capable of leading to a judicial sale under the law of the State of judicial sale;

means the State in which the judicial sale of a ship is conducted.

means the person who purchases the ship from the purchaser named in the certificate of judicial sale referred to in article 5;