{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1257/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1257/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/1257",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1257/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2013 on ship recycling and amending Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 and Directive 2009/16/EC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1257",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Establishment and updating of the United Kingdom List",
  "text": "1. The Secretary of State must publish and maintain a list of ship recycling facilities which—\n(a) are located in the United Kingdom and have been authorised in accordance with Article 14(1);\n(b) are located outside the United Kingdom and whose inclusion is based on an assessment of the information and supporting evidence provided or gathered in accordance with Article 15.\n2. Subject to paragraph 3, the Secretary of State may include on the list of ship recycling facilities published under paragraph 1 ship recycling facilities located outside the United Kingdom which are included on the European List.\nA ship recycling facility which is included on the United Kingdom List by virtue of this paragraph must inform the Secretary of State immediately if it is removed from the European List.\n3. The Secretary of State must be satisfied that, at the time at which a ship recycling facility within paragraph 2 was approved for inclusion on the European List, the standards to which its inclusion was subject were no less than those applicable to facilities included on the United Kingdom List by virtue of paragraph 1.\n4. The Secretary of State may remove a ship recycling facility from the United Kingdom List where—\n(a) it no longer complies with the requirements set out in Article 13;\n(b) it is no longer authorised in accordance with Article 14(1);\n(c) in the case of a ship recycling facility included on the United Kingdom list by virtue of paragraph 2, it is no longer included on the European List; or\n(d) the five year period set out in paragraph 6 of this Article expires and updated evidence supporting its inclusion under paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 has not been provided at least three months prior to its expiry.\n5. The United Kingdom List shall include all of the following information about the ship recycling facility—\n(a) the method of recycling;\n(b) the type and size of ships that can be recycled;\n(c) any limitation and conditions under which the ship recycling facility operates, including as regards hazardous waste management;\n(d) details on the explicit or tacit procedure, as referred to in Article 7(3), for the approval of the ship recycling plan by the competent authority; and\n(e) the maximum annual ship recycling output.\n6. The United Kingdom List shall indicate the date of expiry of the inclusion of the ship recycling facility. An inclusion shall be valid for a maximum period of five years and shall be renewable.\n(7.) The Secretary of State shall communicate to the European Commission all information that may be relevant in respect of the updating of the European List in relation to those facilities in Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 16 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Ship Recycling (Facilities and Requirements for Hazardous Materials on Ships) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/277), regs. 1, 6(15) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1429, reg. 4(g)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1257/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:10.786743+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."
}