EUROPA

SUMMARY

This directive applies to the reporting formalities * applicable to maritime transport for ships arriving in and ships departing from ports in European Union (EU) countries. Every EU country must ensure that the reporting formalities at their ports are requested in a harmonised and coordinated manner. The master, or any other person duly authorised by the operator of the ship, must provide the competent national authority with notification, prior to arriving in an EU port, of the information required under the reporting formalities.

Electronic transmission of data

EU countries shall accept electronic reports via a single window as soon as possible and, at the latest, by 1 June 2015. The single window will be the place where all information is reported once and made available to various competent authorities and the EU countries. EU countries must ensure that information received in accordance with reporting formalities is made available in their national SafeSeaNet systems and make available parts of such information to other EU countries via the SafeSeaNet system.

EU countries shall accept FAL forms for the fulfilment of reporting formalities and they may still accept information provided in a paper format until 1 June 2015.

Exemptions

Ships which are within the scope of Directive 2002/59/EC and which operate between ports situated in the customs territory of the EU, without coming from, calling at or heading towards a port outside the EU, are exempt from the obligation to provide the information.

This directive repeals Directive 2002/6/EC from 19 May 2012.