Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/204 of 28 October 2022 laying down technical specifications, standards and procedures for the European Maritime Single Window environment pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/1239 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/204of 28 October 2022laying down technical specifications, standards and procedures for the European Maritime Single Window environment pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/1239 of the European Parliament and of the Council(Text with EEA relevance)THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2019/1239 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 establishing a European Maritime Single Window environment and repealing Directive 2010/65/EUOJ L 198, 25.7.2019, p. 64., and in particular Articles 5(10), 6(4), 11(3), 14(4), 15(4) and 16(6) thereof,After consulting the Digital Transport and Trade Facilitation Committee,Whereas:(1)The maritime national single windows should provide declarants graphical user interfaces with all the functionalities needed to fulfil the reporting obligations listed in the Annex to Regulation (EU) 2019/1239. To ensure a similar user experience, a common list of functionalities should be defined and those functionalities should be available to declarants in all Member States. However, to minimise costs and ensure compatibility with existing interfaces, Member States can offer additional functionalities in their graphical user interface.(2)Digital spreadsheets are widely used in the maritime sector. They help declarants with the manual input of data and to fulfil their reporting obligations. To ensure declarants can reuse spreadsheet templates in different maritime national single windows, characteristics of spreadsheets should be harmonised, and the versions of spreadsheets should be managed centrally by the Commission. Moreover, when spreadsheet templates are compliant with the harmonised characteristics and the requirements of the EMSWe data set, they should be accepted by all graphical user interfaces, regardless of the language used.(3)Technical specifications to make arrival and departure times of ships available should cover both user-to-system and system-to-system communication This will enable users along the logistics chain to benefit from arrival and departure times of ships (made public in an electronic format) and to guarantee harmonisation at EU level.(4)A common structure for the support websites should be defined, including its functionalities. This will ensure a similar user experience across all maritime national single windows. A common structure will also help provide the appropriate support and information on the processes and technical requirements for maritime national single windows and their interfaces.(5)The internet addresses of the maritime national single windows should use a common future-proof format of domains and subdomains to help users navigate, taking into account the existing internet addresses used in Member States. In order to facilitate the accessibility of the maritime national single windows, the Commission, in collaboration with the Member States, should establish and maintain a list of internet addresses.(6)To ensure a proper functioning and prompt availability of the EMSWe ship database, the common location database and the common hazmat database, system security measures and minimum system performance requirements should be set out.(7)To ensure that ship identification information and particulars can be collected, stored, updated, and made available quickly, the EMSWe ship database should be able to communicate with the maritime national single windows, using system-to-system and user-to-system communication. Any change in ship identification information and particulars, based on the data submitted by declarants to a maritime national single window, should be reflected in the EMSWe ship database.(8)Ship reporting exemptions are issued by the relevant authorities and are not requested from declarants during a port call. As this information is already available in the SafeSeaNet systemhttps://www.emsa.europa.eu/ssn-main.html., the EMSWe ship database should be able to connect to it, retrieve this information automatically, and make it available to the maritime national single windows.(9)To ensure location codes and port facility codes can be collected, stored, updated and made available quickly, the common location database should be able to send information to the maritime national single windows, using system-to-system and user-to-system communication. The common location database should be synchronised with other relevant sources of information.(10)To ensure hazmat reference information can be collected, stored, updated and made available quickly, the common hazmat database should be able to send information to the maritime national single windows, using system-to-system and user-to-system communication. The common hazmat database should be synchronised with other relevant sources of information, including the MAR-CIS databasehttps://www.emsa.europa.eu/mar-ice-network/mar-cis-infosheets.html. developed by European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA).(11)EMSA should assist the Commission set up the EMSWe ship database, the common location database and the common hazmat database, considering the synergies with the existing databases managed by EMSA and its objective to contribute to the overall efficiency of maritime transport as defined in Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilRegulation (EC) No 1406/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 June 2002 establishing a European Maritime Safety Agency (OJ L 208, 5.8.2002, p. 1)..(12)The EMSWe Regulation empowers the Commission to adopt implementing acts to lay down a list of relevant information in the entry summary declaration referred to in Article 127 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilRegulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 laying down the Union Customs Code (OJ L 269, 10.10.2013, p. 1). to be made available to the maritime national single windows. As the EMSWe Regulation is specifically limited to the maritime domain, only the entry summary declarations defined in columns F10, F11, F12 and F13 of Annex B to Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446 of 28 July 2015 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards detailed rules concerning certain provisions of the Union Customs Code (OJ L 343, 29.12.2015, p. 1). lodged by sea carriers or their representatives at declaration header and master consignment level, including master consignment goods item information, should be considered relevant. This means that entry summary declarations lodged by actors other than those mentioned above or information at house consignment level should not be considered relevant.(13)Information in the entry summary declaration to be made available to the maritime national single windows should only come from the commercial and transport documents, issued by the sea carrier, that may be requested in other reporting obligations in connection with that port call. In order to ensure the interoperability of the data exchanged, this information should be mapped to the data elements in the EMSWe data set provided for under Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1239.(14)Since Regulation (EU) 2019/1239 applies from 15 August 2025, this Regulation should apply from the same date,HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: