{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2002-59/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2002-59/article-4.json",
  "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": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Notification prior to entry into ports of the Member States",
  "text": "1. The operator, agent or master of a ship bound for a port of a Member State shall notify the information in Annex I(1) to the port authority:\n(a) at least twenty-four hours in advance; or\n(b) at the latest, at the time the ship leaves the previous port, if the voyage time is less than twenty-four hours; or\n(c) if the port of call is not known or it is changed during the voyage, as soon as this information is available.\n2. Ships coming from a port outside the Community and bound for a port of a Member State carrying dangerous or polluting goods, shall comply with the notification obligations of Article 13.",
  "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/2002/59/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:55.865932+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."
}