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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-42/annex-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-42/annex-II.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2009/42",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2009/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea (Recast) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-42",
  "path": "annex/II",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Type of cargo classification\nCategory\nCode 1 digit\nCode 2 digits\nDescription\nTonnage\nNumber of units\nLiquid bulk\n1\n1X\nLiquid bulk goods (no cargo unit)\nX\n11\nLiquefied gas\nX\n12\nCrude oil\nX\n13\nOil products\nX\n19\nOther liquid bulk goods\nX\nDry bulk\n2\n2X\nDry bulk goods (no cargo unit)\nX\n21\nOres\nX\n22\nCoal\nX\n23\nAgricultural products (e.g. grain, soya, tapioca)\nX\n29\nOther dry bulk goods\nX\nContainers\n3\n3X\nLarge containers\nX\nX\n31\n20 ft freight units\nX\nX\n32\n40 ft freight units\nX\nX\n33\nFreight units > 20 ft and < 40 ft\nX\nX\n34\nFreight units > 40 ft\nX\nX\nRoll on roll off\n(self-propelled)\n5\n5X\nMobile self-propelled units\nX\nX\n51\nRoad goods vehicles and accompanying trailers\nX\nX\n52\nPassenger cars, motorcycles and accompanying trailers/caravans\nX\n53\nPassenger buses\nX\n54\nTrade vehicles (including import/export motor vehicles)\nX\nX\n56\nLive animals on the hoof\nX\nX\n59\nOther mobile self-propelled units\nX\nX\nRoll on roll off\n(non-self-propelled)\n6\n6X\nMobile non-self-propelled units\nX\nX\n61\nUnaccompanied road goods trailers and semi-trailers\nX\nX\n62\nUnaccompanied caravans and other road, agricultural and industrial vehicles\nX\nX\n64\nRail wagons engaged in goods transport\nX\nX\n65\nShipborne port-to-port trailers engaged in goods transport\nX\nX\n66\nShipborne barges engaged in goods transport\nX\nX\n69\nOther mobile non-self-propelled units\nX\nX\nOther general cargo\n(including small containers)\n9\n9X\nOther cargo, not elsewhere specified\nX\n91\nForestry products\nX\n92\nIron and steel products\nX\n99\nOther general cargo\nX\nSupplement to the type of cargo classification for ro-ro containers\nThese categories are consistent with United Nations ECE Recommendation No 21.\nThe quantity recorded is the gross weight of the goods including packaging but excluding the tare weight of containers and Ro-Ro units.\nOnly total number of units.\nCategory\nCode 1 digit\nCode 2 digits\nDescription\nTonnage\nNumber of units\nLarge Ro-Ro Containers\nR\nRX\nLarge Ro-Ro containers\nX\nR1\n20 ft freight units\nX\nR2\n40 ft freight units\nX\nR3\nFreight units > 20 ft and < 40 ft\nX\nR4\nFreight units > 40 ft\nX",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Delegated Decision of 3 February 2012 amending Directive 2009/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea (Text with EEA relevance) (2012/186/EU)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "These categories are consistent with United Nations ECE Recommendation No 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The quantity recorded is the gross weight of the goods including packaging but excluding the tare weight of containers and Ro-Ro units."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Only total number of units."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2009/42/annex/II",
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  },
  "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."
}