Proposal of the EU commission in order to obligate the shipowners to monitor and to communicate the carbon dioxide emissions of the ships



The EU commission, which first legislative initiative for the reduction of the gas emissions to greenhouse effect produced from the marine transports, intends to obligate the shipowners of ships of advanced tonnage to 5.000 tons and of any flag that berth in the ports of the EU to monitor and to communicate the carbon dioxide emissions. To such fine the monitoring, the communication has introduced a "Proposal of concerning regulations the verification of the emissions of co2 generated by the marine transport".

The Commission has evidenced that "the emissions deriving from international the marine transport today represent 3% of the world-wide gas emissions greenhouse and 4% of the gas emissions greenhouse of the EU. In absence of participations - it has specified Brussels - these emissions are destined to increase in future meaningfully, online with the previewed increases of the volume of the exchanges between all the continents. Such increase would make useless the efforts realized in other fields in order to reduce the total emissions of gases to greenhouse effect of the EU".

The proposal previews that the shipowners must monitor and communicate every anniversary emitted the amounts verified of co2 from their ships on the routes from and for the ports of the EU let alone on those which connect ports in the within of the European Union. Moreover they will have to supply other information, which the data in order to determine energy efficiency of the ships. On board of the ships it will have to be guarded a document of conformity, which released from an independent certificatore; such document could be demanded and verified from the authorities of the Member States.

According to the forecasts of the Commission, the new system of monitoring, communication and verification (MRV) would have to reduce the emissions of co2 until 2% regarding the current situation and would have also to reduce the clean costs for the shipowners of an amount until 1,2 billion euros the year in 2030.

Moreover - it has evidenced Brussels - "the system will supply information on the performances of the single ships, on their operating costs and the potential value of cession, in the interest of the shipowners that will have of adequate information in order to take decisions of investment important and to obtain the corresponding financings".

The EU commission has emphasized that the proposal previews to reduce lessened the administrative burdens that weigh on the shipowning societies on board founding the norms on existing documents and the present equipments of the ships. Moreover the societies will be free to choose the monitoring methodology.

The regulations proposal, that it will be time examined from the European Parliament and the Council, previews that these norms are applied beginning from 1º January 2018.

"Today - the European commissioner to the Action for the climate has declared, Connie Hedegaard - we are tracing the road towards the reduction of the coming gas emissions to greenhouse effect from the marine transports. The system of monitoring of the EU will carry advantages to environmental and economic level for the field of the marine transport having increased the transparency in matter of emissions and offering incentives to the shipowners so that they reduce these emissions. This initiative is totally online with the last concerning proposals the world-wide norms in matter efficiency of the fuel and with the measures founded on the market currently object of debate within International Marine Organization (IMO). A reliable system of monitoring, communication and verification of the emissions is indispensable in order to start all over the world of the debates aimed in Europe and on the objectives of reduction for the field".

The vice president of the EU commission, Siim Kallas, responsible for mobility and the transports, has found the necessity to face the topic of the reduction of the emissions of the shipping world-wise: "we are aware - it has explained - than the marine transport must contribute to the efforts in order to reduce the gas emissions greenhouse, rather thanks to effective from the environmental point of view and economically favorable measures world-wise. For a field of world-wide capacity as that of the marine transports, this result can be obtained more adequately through International the Marine Organization. On the base of the current strategic guidelines, the EU will continue its action, in collaboration with its partner world-wide, to the aim to reach international a total solution. The today's proposal is a meaningful contribution to the efforts of the IMO in order to reduce uses and to increase it the fuel saving of the ships, graces to a series of comprising instruments technical measures and measures based on the market".