Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/474 of 20 January 2020 on the European Hull Data Base

This Regulation lays down rules on the collection, processing and access of the data kept in the European Hull Data Base (EHDB) referred to in Article 19 of Directive (EU) 2016/1629, as well as the types of access permitted and the instructions regarding the use and operation of the database.

Member States shall enter in the EHDB the data for the identification of a craft referred to in Annex 1 to this Regulation.

1 The data shall be accessed and processed by the competent authorities of the Member States, by the contracting parties to the Revised Convention for Rhine Navigation and by third countries entrusted with the tasks related to the application of Directives (EU) 2016/1629 and 2005/44/EC in order to support the implementation of administrative measures for maintaining safety and ease of navigation and to ensure application of Directive (EU) 2016/1629.

2 Each Member State, contracting party to the Revised Convention for Rhine Navigation and third country referred to in paragraph 1 shall notify the Commission the names and addresses of the competent authorities referred to in paragraph 1.

3 Member States shall ensure consistency between the data kept in registers referred to in Article 17 of Directive (EU) 2016/1629 and data provided in the EHDB.

4 Full access to the EHDB shall be granted in accordance with Annex 3 to this Regulation.

1 In order to perform administrative measures for ensuring waterway traffic and infrastructure management, maintaining or enforcing safety of navigation and collecting statistical data, read-only access to the EHDB may be granted to authorities, other than those referred to in Article 3 of Member States, of contracting parties to the Revised Convention for Rhine Navigation and of third countries referred to in Article 3(1) of this Regulation.

2 Each Member State, contracting party to the Revised Convention for Rhine Navigation or third country shall notify the Commission of the names and addresses of the bodies referred to in paragraph 1, indicating their user profiles in accordance with Annex 2 to this Regulation.

3 The read-only access to the EHDB shall be granted in accordance with Annex 4 to this Regulation.

1 Each Member State, contracting party to the Revised Convention for Rhine Navigation and third country referred to in Article 3(1) shall designate a single contact point for the Commission and other Member States, in order to facilitate the exchange of information on the validation of the access in accordance with Articles 3 and 4. Notifications in accordance with paragraph (2) of Article 3 and paragraph (2) of Article 4 shall be done by recording the relevant information in the EHDB.

2 The single contact point shall be selected among the competent authorities referred to in Article 3(1) of this Regulation.

3 Each Member State, contracting party to the Revised Convention for Rhine Navigation and third country referred to in Article 3(1) of this Regulation shall notify the Commission the names and contact details of the single contact point for the EHDB.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.