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Short Sea Shipping
IMO-FALThis Directive simplifies maritime transport by standardising certain basic reporting formalities that ships have to fulfil when arriving in and/or departing from ports in the EU Member States. These reporting formalities relate to the ship, its stores, its crew’s effects, its crew list and - for cargo ships - its passenger list. The Directive contains a common set of five model forms that are deemed sufficient to satisfy the particular formalities they cover. It also provides that the original IMO FAL (International Maritime Organisation’s Facilitation) forms 1 (general declaration), 3 (ship’s stores declaration), 4 (crew’s effects declaration), 5 (crew list) and 6 (passenger list) adopted by the IMO have an equal status to the model forms reproduced in the Directive. The Directive also provides a list of signatories that the Member States have to accept for the forms. This list does not exclude Member States from accepting other signatories of the FAL forms, in particular the ship’s agent as signatory of IMO FAL forms 3, 4 and 5. The Directive will be implemented as of 9 September 2003. At the latest on that day the multitude of different forms currently used by the Member States for the relevant reporting purposes will be replaced by five standard forms.
The shipowners or
Member States do not necessarily need to change their current reporting
practices. However, if the shipowner chooses to use the IMO FAL forms for
reporting, the Member State has to accept them as sufficient to satisfy the
relevant formalities. Text of the
Directive:
Addendum 1 to the draft Council minutes when the Directive was
adopted (see the "B" item
9 on pages 4-5) You can now also download the model forms provided in Annex II to the Directive in Word-format. This allows you to save them and fill them in directly on your computer:
Original paper copies of the IMO Facilitation forms are on sale at: Publishing
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