Article 2

1. The Contracting Parties undertake to keep registers for the registration of inland navigation vessels. These registers shall be established in accordance with the national law and shall conform to the provisions of this Convention.

2. Each of the Contracting Parties shall determine the conditions governing and the obligations arising from registration in its registers insofar as those conditions and obligations are not laid down in this Convention.

3. Any person shall be entitled, on application and on payment of the charges, to obtain certified extracts from the entries in the register and, insofar as the entries refer to annexed documents deposited, with the registration office, certified extracts from those documents.