DIRECTIVE 2005/44/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 7 September 2005 on harmonised river information services (RIS) on inland waterways in the Community

waterway axis with kilometre indication;

restrictions for vessels or convoys in terms of length, width, draught and air draught;

operation times of restricting structures, in particular locks and bridges;

predicted waiting times at bridges, locks and inland ports, in real time when available;

location of ports and transhipment sites;

reference data for water level gauges relevant to navigation;

location and, when available, current availability of alternative fuels infrastructure, including shore-side electricity supply.

the indication of technical requirements for the planning, implementing and operational use of services and related systems;

the RIS architecture and organisation;

recommendations for vessels to participate in RIS, for individual services and for the stepwise development of RIS.

compatibility with the maritime electronic chart display and information system (maritime ECDIS) in order to facilitate traffic of inland waterway vessels in mixed traffic zones of the estuaries and sea-river traffic;

the specification of minimum requirements for inland ECDIS equipment as well as the minimum content of electronic navigational charts with a view to the safety of navigation, in particular:

the integration of up-to-date depth information on the fairway in the electronic navigational chart and display of such information in relation to a predefined or the actual water level;

the integration of additional information, for example of parties other than the competent authorities, in the electronic navigational chart and display of such information in the inland ECDIS without affecting the information that is needed for safe navigation;

the availability of electronic navigational charts to RIS users;

the availability of the data for electronic navigational charts to all manufacturers of applications, when appropriate against a reasonable cost-related charge;

the integration of up-to-date information on the waiting times at locks, bridges and inland ports and display of such information in the inland ECDIS without affecting the information that is needed for safe navigation.

the facilitation of the electronic data exchange between the competent authorities of the Member States, between participants in inland as well as maritime navigation and in multi-modal transport where inland navigation is involved;

the use of a standardised transport notification message for ship-to-authority, authority-to-ship and authority-to-authority messaging in order to achieve compatibility with maritime navigation;

the use of internationally accepted code lists and classifications, possibly complemented by additional inland navigation needs;

the use of a unique European vessel identification number.

a standardised data structure using predefined text modules and encoded to a high extent in order to enable automatic translation of the most important content into other languages and to facilitate the integration of notices to skippers into voyage planning systems;

the compatibility of the standardised data structure with the data structure of inland ECDIS to facilitate integration of notices to skippers in inland ECDIS;

an alignment with technical specifications for navigation and voyage planning on inland waterways to ensure coherence of provided information.

the specification of the requirements concerning systems and of standard messages as well as procedures so that they can be provided in an automated way;

the differentiation between systems suited to requirements of tactical traffic information and systems suited to requirements of strategic traffic information, both with regard to positioning accuracy and required update rate;

the description of the relevant technical systems for vessel tracking and tracing such as Inland AIS (inland automatic identification system);

compatibility of data formats with the maritime AIS system.

acting as a single digital window for inland navigation;

a harmonised, single point of access for up-to-date and, if possible, real-time information on fairway conditions for safe and sustainable navigation, voyage planning and port operations along the TEN-T;

enabling multi-modality transport chains while providing an adequate level of data protection;

high level of data accuracy for seamless data exchange among relevant RIS users along the TEN-T (within and outside the Union);

user-friendly interface with serviceable, useful and practical functionalities such as the ability to save and store profiles;

harmonised, single point of reporting in accordance with the ‘once-only’ principle, also for international voyages;

link with other systems using information, communication, navigation or positioning/localisation technologies in order to manage infrastructure, mobility and traffic on the TEN-T effectively and to provide value-added services to citizens and operators, including systems for safe, secure, environmentally sound and capacity-efficient use of the TEN-T;

collect and report anonymised and aggregate usage data that can be used for the monitoring of the implementation of RIS, including at least the number of RIS users, data availability in the European RIS Environment, connection and the number of exchanges with other digital systems or platforms;

ensure cybersecurity.

build on the functionalities provided by the European RIS Environment;

the facilitation of the electronic data exchange between RIS technologies and the databases and systems in use by other modes of transport, through appropriate data links and interfaces;

the specification of the requirements concerning other digital systems or platforms as well as procedures for automated data exchange;

the real-time exchange of information in particular for time-critical data;

ensuring the secure exchange of information in accordance with a comprehensive rights-based access-control system;

anticipate a system exchange framework that will allow for future developments and links with additional systems as required, including exchanges with the future European Mobility Data Space and any other system that is designed to promote innovations in multimodality transport.

provision of up-to-date information at regular intervals and at least when significant changes in the fairway situation take place that can impact the navigation;

cover at least the following information:

provision of information through inland ECDIS, notices to skippers and the European RIS Environment as appropriate.