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See details of applications for marine licences and the decisions made.
Write to, email or call your local Marine Management Organisation office (MMO)
Information about seafarer working and living rights - working conditions, conditions of employment, safe working practices, living conditions, dangerous cargo, health and medical care, maritime labour convention, human elem…
All seafarers have working and living rights that include: employment…
There are minimum requirements seafarers must meet to work at sea. Minimum…
Seafarers’ employment contracts are covered by the Maritime Labour…
The term ‘human element’ covers anything to do with the interaction…
All UK ships must carry copies of the ‘Code of Safe Working Practices for…
Seafarers’ living conditions are covered by Maritime Labour Convention…
Seafarers may face additional dangers when living onboard ships. Petrol…
If seafarers deal with certain toxic cargo or equipment on board ships,…
Employers must protect their seafarers’ health by: providing immunisations…
The Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) came into force for the UK on 7…
Register a vessel, get a licence entitlement and convert it to a licence
Get a licence to carry out any work that disturbs the seabed, including building, laying pipelines or cables, dredging and disposing of waste, or get a marine wildlife licence if you might disturb protected species
Use this form to apply for a licence for a British-registered fishing vessel.
Vessels owners, agents or skippers should use this subject access request form to request VMS data from the MMO.
Vessels 10 metres and under must notify how much nephrops they caught and landed from areas IIa, IV, VI and VII for each trip each week.
Application form for getting an oil spill treatment product approved.
Details and forms for transferring fixed quota allocation units and getting a new holding statement.
What you need to do before you land fish directly from your UK flagged vessel in an EU designated port.
You'll need to give prior notification before you land fish directly from your UK flagged vessel in an EU designated port.
How to submit evidence as part of the marine planning process.
Use this form to apply for a licence to collect mussel seed if you are registered as a shellfish farmer.
Use the Domestic Quota Swap Form to apply for quota to be swapped or leased from one producer organisation to another PO, group or individual fisherman. Producer organisations should use the PO1 form to notify the department…
Use this form to separate a vessel licence or entitlement and use the component parts of the licence or entitlement.
Use this form (VMS2) to register or re-register your vessel monitoring system device.
Use this form (VMS3) to apply for a grant-aided vessel monitoring system device.
Manufacturers should use these forms when a device is released to a vessel owner and to confirm a device has been installed and is working.
This is a list of all forms needed to apply for a fishing vessel licence, establish/transfer an entitlement, disaggregate a licence entitlement, apply for a mussel seed licence, request to change the country of administ…
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