{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-620/annex-VII/part-II/division-4/division-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-620/annex-VII/part-II/division-4/division-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2018/620",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/620 of 20 April 2018 on the technical specifications for the Copernicus service component pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 377/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-620",
  "path": "annex/VII/part/II/division/4/division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "(2)",
  "heading": "Maritime safety and security services",
  "text": "The maritime safety and security services shall respond to two main categories of user needs.\n(a) Search and rescue. Search and Rescue (S&R) is the search for and provision of lifesaving assistance to people in distress and imminent danger of loss of life. S&R activities shall include remote area operations, rescues at sea, and the need for specialist S&R facilities not normally available to emergency services. A S&R service shall include rapid tasking of satellite resources, deployment of UAVs for wide area monitoring and visualization of the position, and respective search pattern, of S&R assets for better coordination of operations.\n(b) Ship safety. The service shall consist of the search for and provision of enhanced maritime traffic picture using EO products. It shall have a global scope, with additional focus on remote areas and specifically in the Polar Regions.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/620/annex/VII/part/II/division/4/division/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:07.991242+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}