11.6.2005

Official Journal of the European Union

C 142/48

List of ships that were refused access to Community ports between 1 September 2004 and 31 March 2005, pursuant to Article 7b of Directive 95/21/EC of 19 June 1995 on the port State control of ships (1)

(2005/C 142/08)

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).

Article 7b(3) provides that the Commission shall publish every six months the list of ships that have been refused access to Community ports.

The table below gives the list of ships that were refused access to Community ports between 1 September 2004 and 31 March 2005.

Name of ship	IMO number	Type of ship	Flag
AIN OUSSERA (3)	8220321	Bulk carrier	Algeria (Very high risk)
HOGGAR	7046821	Ro-Ro Passenger	Algeria (Very high risk)
HERMES	7420326	Oil tanker	St. Vincent & Grenadines (High risk)
LONG GUAN	7625720	Bulk carrier	St. Vincent & Grenadines (High risk)
ANDREAS K (3)	7632436	Bulk carrier	Panama (Medium risk)
GOLDEN S	7000243	Chemical tanker	Turkey (Very high risk)
MEDITERRANEAN STAR	7320370	Chemical tanker	Panama (Medium risk)
BALABAN I	7507148	Bulk carrier	Turkey (Very high risk)

(1) 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) Ships 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.