# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2032 of 20 November 2018 amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 416/2007 concerning the technical specifications for Notices to Skippers, Division 4: STRUCTURE OF NTS AND ENCODING OF NTS MESSAGES

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

This chapter describes the structure and encoding of standardised electronic NtS messages.
An NtS message is a structured message using standardised elements, wherever possible. The use of free text in the data elements shall be restricted to a minimum.
The standardised NtS extended markup language (XML) schema definition, referred to as XSD in this standard, contains the standardised code values and possible formats is included in Appendix C.
The standardised code values and the XML tags, their meaning and translation are provided in the NtS Reference Tables in Appendix E and are also available electronically in the European Reference Data Management System (ERDMS) operated by the European Commission.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/2032/annex/division/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-2032/annex/division-4
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