{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2001-96/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2001-96/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2001/96",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2001/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 December 2001 establishing harmonised requirements and procedures for the safe loading and unloading of bulk carriers (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2001-96",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Responsibilities of masters and terminal representatives",
  "text": "Member States shall make the necessary arrangements to ensure that the following principles concerning the responsibilities of masters and terminal representatives are respected and applied:\n1.. Responsibilities of the master:\n(a) the master shall be responsible at all times for the safe loading and unloading of the bulk carrier under his command;\n(b) the master shall, well in advance of the ship's estimated time of arrival at the terminal, provide the terminal with the information set out in Annex III;\n(c) before any solid bulk cargo is loaded, the master shall ensure that he has received the cargo information required by Regulation VI/2.2 of the 1974 SOLAS Convention, and, where required, a solid bulk cargo density declaration. This information shall be contained in a cargo declaration form as set out in Appendix 5 of the BLU Code;\n(d) prior to the start of and during loading or unloading the master shall discharge the duties listed in Annex IV.\n2.. Responsibilities of the terminal representative:\n(a) upon receipt of the ship's initial notification of its estimated time of arrival, the terminal representative shall provide the master with the information mentioned in Annex V;\n(b) the terminal representative shall be satisfied that the master has been advised as early as possible of the information contained in the cargo declaration form;\n(c) the terminal representative shall without delay notify the master and the port State control authority of apparent deficiencies he has noted on board a bulk carrier which could endanger the safe loading or unloading of solid bulk cargoes;\n(d) prior to the start of and during loading or unloading, the terminal representative shall discharge the duties listed in Annex VI.",
  "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/eudr/2001/96/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:57.965852+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."
}