Any person (including any legal person) that intends to:
- load, discharge and transfer fuels between a bunker barge or a marine terminal or a marine facility or any two or more of the preceding, and a receiving ship where those fuels are for fuelling the same ship or its machinery;
- renew an existing authorisation to load, discharge and transfer fuels between a bunker barge or a marine terminal or a marine facility or any two or more of the preceding, and a receiving ship where those fuels are for fuelling the same ship or its machinery;
- transfer an existing authorisation to load, discharge and transfer fuels between a bunker barge or a marine terminal or a marine facility or any two or more of the preceding, and a receiving ship where those fuels are for fuelling the same ship or its machinery;
is required to be in possession of an authorisation prior to operating such a storage facility or system, and carrying out the service activity and the exercise thereof.