{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2002-59/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2002-59/article-8.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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Monitoring of the compliance of ships with vessel traffic services",
  "text": "Member States shall monitor and take all necessary and appropriate measures to ensure that:\n(a) ships entering the area of applicability of a VTS operated by one or more States, of which at least one is a Member State, within their territorial sea and based on the guidelines developed by the IMO, participate in, and comply with, the rules of that VTS;\n(b) ships flying the flag of a Member State or ships bound for a port of a Member State and entering the area of applicability of such a VTS outside the territorial sea of a Member State and based on the guidelines developed by the IMO, comply with the rules of that VTS;\n(c) ships flying the flag of a third State and not bound for a port in a Member State entering a VTS area outside the territorial sea of a Member State, follow the rules of that VTS wherever possible. Member States should report to the flag State concerned any apparent serious breach of those rules in such a VTS area.",
  "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/8",
    "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."
}