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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2002-59/annex-III/division-3",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2002/59",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2002/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002 establishing a Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system and repealing Council Directive 93/75/EEC",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2002-59",
  "path": "annex/III/division/3",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Exchange and sharing of data",
  "text": "The system shall use industry standards and be able to interact with public and private systems used to create, provide or receive information within SafeSeaNet.\nThe Commission and the Member States shall cooperate in order to examine the feasibility and development of functionalities that as far as possible will ensure that the data providers, including masters, owners, agents, operators, shippers and relevant authorities, need to submit information only once, taking due account of the obligations in Directive 2010/65/EU and other relevant Union legislation. Member States shall ensure that the information submitted is available for use in all relevant reporting, notification, information sharing and VTMIS systems.\nMember States shall develop and maintain the necessary interfaces for automatic transmission of data by electronic means to SafeSeaNet.\nThe central SafeSeaNet shall be used for the distribution of electronic messages and data exchanged or shared in accordance with this Directive and relevant Union legislation, inter alia:\nDirective 2000/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2000 on port reception facilities for ship-generated waste and cargo residues, as regards Article 12(3) thereof,\nDirective 2005/35/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on ship-source pollution and on the introduction of penalties, including criminal penalties, for pollution offences, as regards Article 10 thereof,\nDirective 2009/16/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on port State control, as regards Article 24 thereof,\nDirective 2010/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 on reporting formalities for ships arriving in and/or departing from ports of the Member States in so far as Article 6 thereof applies.\nThe operation of the SafeSeaNet system should support the facilitation and establishment of the European Maritime Transport Space without Barriers.\nWhere internationally-adopted rules allow routing of LRIT information concerning third country vessels, SafeSeaNet networks shall be used to distribute amongst Member States, with an appropriate level of security, the LRIT information received in accordance with Article 6b of this Directive.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Directive 2014/100/EU of 28 October 2014 amending Directive 2002/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Community vessel traffic monitoring and information system (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Directive 2010/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 on reporting formalities for ships arriving in and/or departing from ports of the Member States and repealing Directive 2002/6/EC ( OJ L 283, 29.10.2010, p. 1 )."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Directive 2000/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2000 on port reception facilities for ship-generated waste and cargo residues ( OJ L 332, 28.12.2000, p. 81 )."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Directive 2005/35/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on ship-source pollution and on the introduction of penalties, including criminal penalties, for pollution offences ( OJ L 255, 30.9.2005, p. 11 )."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Directive 2009/16/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on port State control ( OJ L 131, 28.5.2009, p. 57 )."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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