IMO NATIONAL CONTACT POINT LIST

Updated on 30 Jun 2016
Please be advised that the updated ‘List of National Operational Contact Points Responsible for the Receipt, Transmission and Processing of Urgent Reports on Incidents Involving Harmful Substances, Including Oil from Ships to Coastal States’ was published by the IMO in MSC-MEPC.6/Circ.14 Annex 2 on 30 Jun 2016.
Vessels carrying a Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan (i.e. all vessels over 400GT) should insert the updated list in the SOPEP, to ensure ongoing compliance with MARPOL Annex I Regulation 37.2.4.
Vessels carrying a Shipboard Marine Pollution Emergency Plan, (i.e. ships of 150 gross tonnage and above certified to carry noxious liquid substances in bulk), should also insert the updated list in the SMPEP, to ensure ongoing compliance with MARPOL Annex II Regulation 17.2.4.

The following letter needs to be submitted for duty free fuel bunker in France:

VESSEL NAME

VESSEL OPERATING COMPANY NAME

SUBJECT: ATTESTATION FOR EXONERATION OF VAT ACCORDING TO SECTIONS 2°, 3°, 6° AND 7° / II OF l’article 262 du code général des impôts (CGI).

I, THE UNDERSIGNED, (SIRNAME, NAME, POSITION), ATTEST THAT THE VESSEL (FULL NAME, REGISTRY, OFFICIAL NUMBER AND/OR IMO NUMBER) SATISFY THE CONDITIONS STIPÛLATED IN SECTIONS 2°, 3°, 6° AND 7° OF ARTICLE

262 II OF THE CODE GENERALE DES IMPOTS AND CONFORMS TO THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA

– IS COMMERCIALLY REGISTERED

– HAS A FULL TIME CREW

– ENGAGES IN COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY

– IS GREATER THAN 15 METERS LENGHTH OVERALL

– LEAVES FRENCH TERRITORIAL WATERS IN AT LEAST 70% OF ITS VOYAGES DURING THE YEAR

NON COMPLIANCE WITH ONE OR MORE OF THE ABOVE CONDITIONS RESULTING IN A CHANGE IN TREATMENT OF THE VESSEL UNDER SECTION 2° /III OF ARTICLE 257 OF THE CGI WILL CAUSE THE BENEFICIARY TO BE LIABLE FOR THE VAT CONCERNED.

SIGNED IN: (PLACE)

ON THE: (DATE)

Signature:

PRINT NAME:

PRINT TITLE: (EG MASTER)