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Document 52008XC0509(02)

    List of ships that were refused access to Community ports between 1 September 2007 and 31 March 2008 , pursuant to Article 7b of Council Directive 95/21/EC on the port State control of ships

    OJ C 114, 9.5.2008, p. 4–4 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

    9.5.2008   

    EN

    Official Journal of the European Union

    C 114/4


    List of ships that were refused access to Community ports between 1 September 2007 and 31 March 2008, pursuant to Article 7b of Council Directive 95/21/EC on the port State control of ships (1)

    (2008/C 114/04)

    Under Article 7b(1) of Directive 95/21/CE on the port State control of ships, ships which have been detained several times shall be refused access to the ports of the Member States (2).

    The table below gives the list of ships that were refused access to Community ports between 1 September 2007 and 31 March 2008.

    Name of ship

    IMO number

    Type of ship

    Flag

    AGIOS NIKOLAOS II

    7378664

    Bulk carrier

    Comoros

    BLUE ICE

    7340851

    Oil tanker

    St Kitts and Nevis

    HAJ YAMAK (3)

    7312684

    Bulk carrier

    Panama


    (1)  Directive as last amended by Directive 2001/106/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 December 2001 (OJ L 19, 22.1.2002, p. 17).

    (2)  The first paragraph of Article 7b reads:

    ‘A Member State shall ensure that a ship in one of the categories of Annex XI, section A, is refused access to its ports, except in the situations described in Article 11(6), if the ship:

    either:

    flies the flag of a State appearing in the black list as published in the annual report of the MOU, and

    has been detained more than twice in the course of the preceding 24 months in a port of a State signatory of the MOU,

    or:

    flies the flag of a State described as “very high risk” or “high risk” in the black list as published in the annual report of the MOU, and

    has been detained more than once in the course of the preceding 36 months in a port of a State signatory of the MOU.

    The refusal of access shall become applicable immediately the ship has been authorised to leave the port where it has been the subject of a second or third detention as appropriate.’.

    (3)  Ship for which the access refusal order was subsequently lifted in accordance with the procedures described in part B of Annex XI to Directive 95/21/EC.


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