Common Hazmat Database
Article 16
1. The Commission shall establish a common hazmat database containing a list of dangerous and polluting goods which are to be notified in accordance with Directive 2002/59/EC and IMO FAL 7, taking into consideration the relevant data elements from the IMO Conventions and Codes. 2. The Commission shall ensure the availability of the common hazmat database to the maritime National Single Windows to facilitate ship reporting. 3. The database shall be linked to the relevant entries in the MAR-CIS database developed by European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) regarding information on associated hazards and risks of dangerous and polluting goods. 4. The database shall be used both as a reference and a verification tool, at national and Union level, during the reporting process through the maritime National Single Window. 5. Member States shall make information from the common hazmat database available at national level through the maritime National Single Window. 6. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts laying down the technical specifications, standards and procedures for the setting up of the common hazmat database referred to in paragraph 1 with respect to the collecting, storing and provision of the hazmat reference information. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 24(2). The first such implementing act shall be adopted by 15 August 2021.